Kobayashi, Yasushi, Kenji Kawano, Aya Takemura, Yuka Ininputs that generate simple spikes (SS) at rates up to several oue, Toshihiro Kitama, Hiroaki Gomi, and Mitsuo Kawato. hundred discharges per second and a single climbing fiber Temporal firing patterns of Purkinje cells in cerebellar ventral parainput that generates complex spikes (CS) at rates that do flocculus during ocular following responses in monkeys. II. Comnot exceed more than a few discharges per second (Thach plex spikes. J.

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