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Master thesis (2020) - Thijs Hoedemakers, Mario Negrello, L. Peternel, D.A. Abbink, M. Jafarian
The olivocerebellar system plays a crucial role in control of movements of the human body in terms of coordination, precision and timing. Long-term plasticity is directly linked to motor learning and control. In this research, we developed a phenomenological model of the olivocerebellar system with balancing of long-term potentiation (LTP) and long-term depression (LTD) at the parallel fiber-Purkinje cell (PF-PC) synapse. By ranging the PF input over frequencies, we found that PCs can select frequencies in a highly non-linear manner. There is a sharp contrast in synaptic weight change between neighbouring frequencies, which is caused by the temporal spiking property of the inferior olive (IO) cell. This research found a novel signal processing capability of the PC. ...