[HN Gopher] Neuroscientists discovered a whole new role for the ...
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       Neuroscientists discovered a whole new role for the cerebellum
        
       Author : ofou
       Score  : 46 points
       Date   : 2021-10-24 05:21 UTC (2 days ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (www.sciencealert.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (www.sciencealert.com)
        
       | jonnycomputer wrote:
       | Well the cerebellum has been known to use error-driven learning
       | to coordinate sensor inputs and motor outputs. I'm not sure I've
       | heard of it responding to reward specifically before (I'll have
       | to ask my colleagues whether they get reward-sensitive BOLD
       | response in their analyses). The article is sparse on details,
       | and the link to the paper in Nature doesn't seem to actually
       | point to an article...
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       | Also, this article is from 2018, which should be noted.
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       | Update: mattkrause points to the original paper, here:
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       | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28321129/
        
         | mattkrause wrote:
         | I don't think it's either of those: the article mentions Mark
         | Wagner and Liqun Luo, who aren't authors.
         | 
         | I think I found it above, via the 2nd link in the article; it
         | goes to a PR piece which ultimately links to the paper.
        
           | jonnycomputer wrote:
           | I'll update my post to point to yours. Thanks.
        
       | mattkrause wrote:
       | I'm a little disappointed at the framing.
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       | This is certainly not the first article to claim that the
       | cerebellum is involved in reward: there was a series of PET
       | studies c. 2000 that reported that the cerebellum encoded reward
       | prediction error, and it's mentioned in the abstract of Wolfram
       | Shultz's 2000 Annual Review, so it must have been fairly
       | mainstream even back then.
       | 
       | Alas, a growing chunk of neuroscience ignores everything that's
       | not mouse optogenetics...
        
       | mattkrause wrote:
       | Actual paper: Wagner, M. J., Kim, T. H., Savall, J., Schnitzer,
       | M. J., & Luo, L. (2017). Cerebellar granule cells encode the
       | expectation of reward. Nature, 544(7648), 96-100.
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       | Full text via PMC: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/28321129/
        
       | 0xdeadb00f wrote:
       | > But last year neuroscientists discovered that it plays an
       | important role in the reward response - one of the main drives
       | that motivate and shape human behaviour.
       | 
       | There. That's probably what you came here for. Read the rest if
       | you want details. But if like me you just wanted to know what
       | "role" the headline is referring to.. There you have it.
        
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         | lborsato wrote:
         | And deny themselves the pleasure of the advertising? /s
        
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