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University of Cambridge
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Schedule
Wednesday, April 14, 2021
7:30 PM Africa/Johannesburg
Recording provided by the organiser.
Domain
NeuroscienceHost
NERV
Duration
70 minutes
The cerebellum contains more than half of the brain’s neurons and it is essential for motor control. Its neural circuits have a distinctive architecture comprised of a large, sparse expansion from the input mossy fibres to the granule cell layer. For years, theories of how cerebellar architectural features relate to cerebellar function have been formulated. It has been shown that some of these features can facilitate pattern separation. However, these theories don’t consider the need for it to learn fast in order to control smooth and accurate movements. Here, we confront this gap. This talk will show that the expansion to the granule cell layer in the cerebellar cortex improves learning speed and performance in the context of motor control by considering a cerebellar-like network learning an internal model of a motor apparatus online. By expressing the general form of the learning rate for such a system, this talk will provide a calculation of how increasing the number of granule cells diminishes the effect of noise and increases the learning speed. The researchers propose that the particular architecture of cerebellar circuits modifies the geometry of the error function in a favourable way for learning faster. Their results illuminate a new link between cerebellar structure and function.
Adriana Perez Rotondo
University of Cambridge
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