Topic: neocortical plasticity

A recent surge of experimental evidence points towards a significant role of the cerebellum in the development and maintenance of neocortical states through cortico-cerebellar loops. Notably, the re- sulting positive feedback loop is not limited to the motor domain to which the cerebellum is classically associated but has been shown to extend to various cognitive processes. However, it remains unclear what functional principles may underlie these cerebro-cerebellar loops. Here we model a neocortical area as a recurrent neural network which projects to, and receives from, a cerebellar feedforwa