The neural basis of motor control and learning in the vestibulocerebellar system

Abstract

This dissertation uses the vestibulocerebellar system to unravel the neural basis of accurate behavioral responses, adaptable motor learning and even non-motor functionalities. To this end, I have revealed cellular and synaptic mechanisms that underlie appropriate neuronal coding and sensorimotor integration and how these errors in this coding result in motor (learning) deficits and disease. In Chapter 1.2, we reviewed the anatomical and physiological char