WAITING FOR THE ULTIMATE THEORY OF THE CEREBELLUM

Although our idea of sequential input being a key to cerebellar functi on was taken seriously by most commentators, there were also objection s, based in part on experimental evidence that seems to contradict our intuitions and in part on commentators' preferences for different sch emes. Several were suspicious of experiments (performed on slices of c erebellar tissue) that may have severed some of the synaptic connectio ns, particularly the inhibitory ones. It is our feeling that a modific ation of our theory that could satisfy most critics would not have to be very radical.