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Role of the cerebellum in conversion from short-term motor memory to long-term motor memory

Research Project

Project/Area Number 16500204
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field Neuroscience in general
Research InstitutionRIKEN

Principal Investigator

NAGAO Soich  RIKEN, Laboratory for Motor Learning Control, Team Leader, 運動学習制御研究チーム, チームリーダー (40164397)

Project Period (FY) 2004 – 2005
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2005)
Budget Amount *help
¥3,600,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,600,000)
Fiscal Year 2005: ¥1,200,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,200,000)
Fiscal Year 2004: ¥2,400,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,400,000)
KeywordsCerebellum / Motor Learning / Short-term Memory / Long-term Memory / Long-term Depression / Eye Movement / Memory Trace / 学習 / 記憶 / 小脳皮質 / 神経伝達可塑性 / 前庭核
Research Abstract

By using the adaptation paradigm of mouse horizontal optokinetic eye movements, we confirmed that the memory trace of motor memory acquired by 1-2h of training is stored at parallel fiber-Purkinje cell synapses by lesion, pharmacological, gene-knockout mice experiments and electron microscopic studies. Moreover, we revealed that the memory trace formed by one week of training is maintained in the vestibular nuclei where Purkinje cells issue their outputs by pharmacological and electrophysiological experiments. These findings provide a strong conclusion on the world-wide dispute on the location of motor memory in the brain which continued for the past 20 years. They also provide the first experimental evidence that the memory trace of motor learning shifted transsynaptically for its consolidation. We tried to examine whether these observations obtained from mice are common throughout animal species using monkeys as experimental materials. When we oscillated the monkey viewing external world through 2 times magnifying lens under head fixed condition for 2h, gains of the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) increased by 0.15, which declined within 24h. When we trained the monkey likewise successively for 3 days, the long-term changes of the VOR were not seen and only short-term increment of the VOR gain was seen. These observations suggest that the gains of the HVOR may be maximally increased by the long-term adaptation which was induced by moving their heads in the light condition in daily life, and only short-term increment may be induced by vestibular training in monkeys. The same phenomenon is also seen in mice after a week of optokinetic training, in which long-term adaptation was saturated and only short-term adaptation was induced.

Report

(3 results)
  • 2005 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2004 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (9 results)

All 2006 2004

All Journal Article (9 results)

  • [Journal Article] Memory trace of motor learning shifts transsynaptically from cerebellar cortex to nuclei for consolidation.2006

    • Author(s)
      Shutoh F, Ohki M, Kitazawa H, Itohara S, Nagao S
    • Journal Title

      Neuroscience 139

      Pages: 767-777

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Memory trace of motor learning shifts transsynaptically from cerebellar cortex to nuclei for consolidation.2006

    • Author(s)
      Shutoh F, Ohki M, Kitazawa H, Itohara S, Nagao S.
    • Journal Title

      Neuroscience 139

      Pages: 767-777

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2005 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Journal Article] Memory trace of motor learning shifts transsynaptically from cerebellar cortex to nuclei for consolidation.2006

    • Author(s)
      Shutoh F, Ohki M, Kitazawa H, Itohara S, Nagao S
    • Journal Title

      Neuroscience (印刷中)

    • Related Report
      2005 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] The pontine nuclei mediated cerbello-cerebral interactions and its functional role.2004

    • Author(s)
      Nagao S.
    • Journal Title

      The Cerebellum 3

      Pages: 11-15

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Locomotor and oculomotor impairments are involved with cerebellar dysgenesis in Zic3-deficient (Bent tail) mutant mice.2004

    • Author(s)
      Aruga J, Ogura H, Shutoh F, Ogawa M, Franke B, Nagao S, Mikoshiba K.
    • Journal Title

      European Journal of Neuroscience 20

      Pages: 2159-2167

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Reduction of AMPA receptor content in parallel fiber synapses by cerebellar motor learning.2004

    • Author(s)
      Masugi-Tokita M, Nakadate K, Shutoh F, Wang W, Fujiwara Y, Molner E, Nagao S, Shigemoto R.
    • Journal Title

      Neuroscience Research Supplement 50

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Reduction of synapse density after long-term adaptation of horizontal optokinetic response in the mouse flocculus.2004

    • Author(s)
      Nakadate K, Shutoh F, Nagao S, Shigemoto R.
    • Journal Title

      Neuroscience Research Supplement 50

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Effects of microstimulation of monkey cerebellar hemisheric lobule VI/VII on eye movements.2004

    • Author(s)
      Kitazawa H, Ohki M, Hiramatsu T, Kitamura T, Yamada J, Nagao S.
    • Journal Title

      Neuroscience Research Supplement 50

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report
  • [Journal Article] Changes of electrical responsiveness of vestibular nuclei correlated with long-term adaptation of horizontal optokinetic eye movement response in mice.2004

    • Author(s)
      Ohki M, Shutoh F, Nagao S.
    • Journal Title

      Neuroscience Research Supplement 50

    • Related Report
      2004 Annual Research Report

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Published: 2004-04-01   Modified: 2016-04-21  

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