The Brainstem & The Cerebellum: Basic Operating Principles

In this lecture I explain the basic operating principles of the brainstem and the cerebellum.

*Chapters*
0:00 Introduction
0:29 Problem Statement
4:48 Closed Loop Control
8:23 Cascade Control
13:31 Associative Memory in the Cerebellum
15:37 The Forward Internal Model Hypothesis
23:36 The Smith Predictor
25:41 Conclusion

*REFERENCES*

*Is the Cerebellum a Smith Predictor?*
Miall, Weir, Wolpert, Stein (1993)

*An internal model of a moving visual target in the lateral cerebellum*
Nadia L Cerminara, Richard Apps, and Dilwyn E Marple-Horvat (2009)

*How Basal Ganglia Outputs Generate Behavior*
Henry H. Yin (2014)

*Short latency cerebellar modulation of the basal ganglia*
Christopher H Chen, Rachel Fremont, Eduardo E Arteaga-Bracho & Kamran Khodakhah (2014)

*Evolution of behavioural control from chordates to primates*
Paul Cisek (2021)

*50 Years Since the Marr, Ito, and Albus Models of the Cerebellum*
Mitsuo Kawato, Shogo Ohmae, Huu Hoang and Terry Sanger (2021)