Dynamic organization of cerebellar climbing fiber response and synchrony in multiple functional components reduces dimensions for reinforcement learning
- Advanced Telecommunications Research Institute International, Japan
- RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Japan
- The University of Tokyo, Japan
- University of Yamanashi, Japan
- ATR Neural Information Analysis Laboratories, Japan
Abstract
Cerebellar climbing fibers convey diverse signals, but how they are organized in the compartmental structure of the cerebellar cortex during learning remains largely unclear. We analyzed a large amount of coordinate-localized two-photon imaging data from cerebellar Crus II in mice undergoing 'Go/No-go' reinforcement learning. Tensor component analysis revealed that a majority of climbing fiber inputs to Purkinje cells were reduced to only four functional components, corresponding to accurate timing control of motor initiation related to a Go cue, cognitive error-based learning, reward processing, and inhibition of erroneous behaviors after a No-go cue. Changes in neural activities during learning of the first two components were correlated with corresponding changes in timing control and error learning across animals, indirectly suggesting causal relationships. Spatial distribution of these components coincided well with boundaries of Aldolase-C/zebrin II expression in Purkinje cells, whereas several components are mixed in single neurons. Synchronization within individual components was bidirectionally regulated according to specific task contexts and learning stages. These findings suggest that, in close collaborations with other brain regions including the inferior olive nucleus, the cerebellum, based on anatomical compartments, reduces dimensions of the learning space by dynamically organizing multiple functional components, a feature that may inspire new-generation AI designs.
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Data analysed for all the figures are included in the manuscript and source data files. The Aldoc-tdTomato mouse line is available at RIKEN Bio Resource Center (RBRC10927).
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Masanori Matsuzaki
Funding
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Huu Hoang
- Masanori Matsuzaki
- Masanobu Kano
- Mitsuo Kawato
- Kazuo Kitamura
- Keisuke Toyama
Japan Science and Technology Agency
- Huu Hoang
- Keisuke Toyama
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development
- Huu Hoang
- Mitsuo Kawato
- Kazuo Kitamura
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Ethics
Animal experimentation: All experiments were approved by the Animal Experiment Committees of the University of Tokyo (#P08-015) and the University of Yamanashi (#A27-1), and carried out in accordance with national regulations and institutional guidelines.
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- Jennifer L Raymond, Stanford University, United States
Version history
- Received: January 20, 2023
- Accepted: September 13, 2023
- Accepted Manuscript published: September 15, 2023 (version 1)
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© 2023, Hoang et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Dynamic organization of cerebellar climbing fiber response and synchrony in multiple functional components reduces dimensions for reinforcement learning
eLife 12:e86340.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.86340
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