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Cerebellar climbing fibers encode expected reward size

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ELIFE
Volume 8, Issue -, Pages -

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ELIFE SCIENCES PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.7554/eLife.46870

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  1. H2020 European Research Council [imove 755745]
  2. Human Frontier Science Program [CDA 00056]
  3. Israel Science Foundation [38017]

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Climbing fiber inputs to the cerebellum encode error signals that instruct learning. Recently, evidence has accumulated to suggest that the cerebellum is also involved in the processing of reward. To study how rewarding events are encoded, we recorded the activity of climbing fibers when monkeys were engaged in an eye movement task. At the beginning of each trial, the monkeys were cued to the size of the reward that would be delivered upon successful completion of the trial. Climbing fiber activity increased when the monkeys were presented with a cue indicating a large reward, but not a small reward. Reward size did not modulate activity at reward delivery or during eye movements. Comparison between climbing fiber and simple spike activity indicated different interactions for coding of movement and reward. These results indicate that climbing fibers encode the expected reward size and suggest a general role of the cerebellum in associative learning beyond error correction.

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