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Theory suggests that cerebellar granule cells combine sensory and motor signals originating from different sources. An unexpected logic governing how granule cells process different input sources may enhance computational power.

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Figure 1: Presynaptic origins of diverse granule cell responses.

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  1. Nathaniel B. Sawtell and L.F. Abbott are in the Department of Neuroscience, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA.,

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Sawtell, N., Abbott, L. Strength in more than numbers. Nat Neurosci 18, 614–616 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4006

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