THE CEREBELLUM AND TIMING - LESSONS FROM MORMYRIDS

Mormyrid teleosts have Purkinje cells with palisade dendrites, which p robably represent coincidence detectors of parallel fiber activity. Th eir existence strongly supports the ideas of Braitenberg et al. on cer ebellar function. However, the organization of mormyrid granule cells and parallel fibers suggests that a key to cerebellar function is not in interactions within one wave, but between two opposite tidal waves.