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Optimal routing to cerebellum-like structures

View ORCID ProfileSamuel Muscinelli, Mark Wagner, Ashok Litwin-Kumar
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.10.480014
Samuel Muscinelli
1Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America
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Mark Wagner
2National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, NIH, Bethesda, MD, United States of America
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Ashok Litwin-Kumar
1Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, NY, United States of America
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Abstract

The vast expansion from mossy fibers to cerebellar granule cells produces a neural representation that supports functions including associative and internal model learning. This motif is shared by other cerebellum-like structures, including the insect mushroom body, electrosensory lobe of electric fish, and mammalian dorsal cochlear nucleus, and has inspired numerous theoretical models of its functional role. Less attention has been paid to structures immediately presynaptic to granule cell layers, whose architecture can be described as a “bottleneck” and whose functional role is not understood. We therefore develop a general theory of cerebellum-like structures in conjunction with their afferent pathways. This theory predicts the role of the pontine relay to cerebellar cortex and the glomerular organization of the insect antennal lobe. It also reconciles theories of nonlinear mixing with recent observations of correlated granule cell activity. More generally, it shows that structured compression followed by random expansion is an efficient architecture for flexible computation.

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Optimal routing to cerebellum-like structures
Samuel Muscinelli, Mark Wagner, Ashok Litwin-Kumar
bioRxiv 2022.02.10.480014; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.10.480014
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Optimal routing to cerebellum-like structures
Samuel Muscinelli, Mark Wagner, Ashok Litwin-Kumar
bioRxiv 2022.02.10.480014; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.02.10.480014

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