Cerebellar Contribution to Motor and Nonmotor Learning - Saccadic eye movement and decision-making studies in man and macaque

Abstract

The studies contained in this thesis aid to further our knowledge in the roles of the cerebellum in different types of motor and non-motor processes. We have used re-emerging techniques such as transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in a classic motor adaptation task and a basic categorization task (Chapter 2 and 3); and electrophysiological recordings of a Purkinje cell (PC) in awake behaving non-human primates to provide new findings on the different contributions of the cerebellum to motor and cognitive processes (Chapter 4 and 5).