Re: Representation of auditory information at the cerebellar level?

["Richard J. Fabbri" <fabbri@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Eric,

Another feature of Cerebellum computation is Coordinate Transformation.

I have no direct evidence for the following conclusion but, I strongly suspect
that directional hearing is transformed to Acoustic Environment prediction
in the Cerebellum, i.e., acoustic estimate of room surface positions and
source locations.  Whether (or not) these calculations are cerebellar
localized
at least fits cerebellar neural architecture but, my work supports
trigonometric
(Law of Cosines) needs to iteratively (calculate) map acoustic environments
from delay and arrival angle estimates.


Richard Fabbri
Scarce Ideas

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>Dear List,
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>
>I'm currently trying to collect data/articles on how the auditory
>information might be represented at the cerebellar level.
>
>I've just browsed a couple of resources including the AUDITORY
>LIST's archive, the on-line Journal of Neurophysiology (not mentioning
>a simple keyword search on the Web) and found relatively little data.
>In the former, there is a substantial list of references provided by
>Neil Todd (Hello Neil, how are you?!) in one of his messages dated
>April 1998. But there is nothing there answering quite directly
>my question, for most of the indicated articles relate rather to 'mental
>activity' and 'vocal planning'; and that I'm actually also/only
>interested in the sensory/perceptual aspect.
>
>I'd be grateful to anyone able to provide me with such data, ranging
>from
>   - purely anatomical data: Do cerebellar mossy fibers / granule cells
>     receive input from the auditory pathway? and if yes where from?
>to
>   - modelling work: Is there any 'CASA' work taking advantage of the
>     computational features of the cerebellum one of which is prediction?
>
>
>Many thanks in advance.
>
>
>Eric.
>
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