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Technical advances in calcium imaging enable the first tests of classic theories of cerebellar learning. Two independent groups reveal dense representation of surprising modalities in cerebellar granule cells.

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Figure 1: New information modalities, including reward, reward omission and other predictions, enrich cerebellar granule cell encoding.

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  1. Matthew I. Becker is in the Neuroscience Graduate Program and Medical Scientist Training Program,

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  2. Abigail L. Person is in the Department of Physiology & Biophysics, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Aurora, Colorado, USA.,

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Becker, M., Person, A. Cerebellar granule cells expand their talents. Nat Neurosci 20, 633–634 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nn.4552

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