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The cerebellum : brain for an implicit self
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Itō, Masao, 1928-2018, Author.
- Itåo, Masao, 1928-2018., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cerebellum--Physiology.
- Cerebellum.
- Neuroplasticity.
- Neurons, Efferent.
- Electrophysiological Phenomena.
- Signal Transduction.
- Metencephalon.
- Nervous System Physiological Phenomena.
- Biological Science Disciplines.
- Rhombencephalon.
- Physiological Phenomena.
- Neurons.
- Cell Physiological Phenomena.
- Biochemical Phenomena.
- Natural Science Disciplines.
- Chemical Phenomena.
- Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena.
- Brain.
- Nervous System.
- Cells.
- Brain Stem.
- Central Nervous System.
- Anatomy.
- Synaptic Transmission.
- Physiology.
- Neuronal Plasticity.
- Motor Neurons.
- Medical Subjects:
- Neurons, Efferent.
- Electrophysiological Phenomena.
- Signal Transduction.
- Metencephalon.
- Nervous System Physiological Phenomena.
- Biological Science Disciplines.
- Rhombencephalon.
- Physiological Phenomena.
- Neurons.
- Cell Physiological Phenomena.
- Biochemical Phenomena.
- Natural Science Disciplines.
- Chemical Phenomena.
- Musculoskeletal and Neural Physiological Phenomena.
- Brain.
- Nervous System.
- Cells.
- Brain Stem.
- Central Nervous System.
- Anatomy.
- Synaptic Transmission.
- Physiology.
- Cerebellum.
- Neuronal Plasticity.
- Motor Neurons.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 213 p.) : ill.
- Edition:
- 1st edition
- Place of Publication:
- [Place of publication not identified] FT Press 2012
- Language Note:
- English
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Leading neuroscientist Dr. Masao Ito advances a detailed and fascinating view of what the cerebellum contributes to brain function. The cerebellum has been seen as primarily involved in coordination of body movement control, facilitating the learning of motor skills such as those involved in walking, riding a bicycle, or playing a piano. The cerebellum is now viewed as an assembly of numerous neuronal machine modules, each of which provides an implicit learning capability to various types of motor control. The cerebellum enables us to unconsciously learn motor skills through practice by forming internal models simulating control system properties of the body parts. Based on these remarkable advances in our understanding of motor control mechanisms of the cerebellum, Ito presents a still larger view of the cerebellum as serving a higher level of brain functions beyond movements, including the implicit part of the thought and cognitive processes that manipulate knowledge. Ito extends his investigation of the cerebellum to discuss neural processes that may be involved implicitly in such complex mental actions as having an intuition, imagination, hallucination, or delusion.
- Contents:
- Neuronal circuitry
- the key to unlocking the brain
- Traditional views of the cerebellum
- The cerebellum as a neuronal machine
- Input and output pathways in the cerebellar cortex
- Inhibitory interneurons and glial cells in the cerebellar cortex
- Pre- and post-cerebellar neurons
- Conjunctive long-term depression (LTD)
- Multiplicity and persistency of synaptic plasticity
- Network models
- Ocular reflexes
- Somatic and autonomic reflexes
- Models of adaptive control
- Overall voluntary motor control
- Voluntary control of eye movements
- Internal models for voluntary motor control
- Motor actions including the use of tools
- Cognitive functions of the cerebellum
- Concluding thoughts.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 151-199).
- ISBN:
- 9780137050680
- 0137050682
- OCLC:
- 745061793
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