Cerebellum and motor learning

Introduction: Besides its well-established importance for motor coordination, the cerebellum plays a major role in motor learning including learning of skills and simple classical conditioning of skeletal muscle responses. The form of cerebellum-dependent motor learning, which has been examined in greatest detail, is classical conditioning of eyeblink responses. The aim of the talk is to give an update of findings in humans. Methods: Emphasis is put on human lesion studies, which take advantage of the advances of high-resolution structural magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). In addition, findings of functional bra…