The ability to learn and perform goal-directed, motor actions is essential for adaptive behavior and survival. Efforts to dissect motor function suggest dissociable roles for basal ganglia and cerebellum. The current consensus view is that the former reinforces goal-directed actions while the latter refines actions using error signals. Each circuit has been thoroughly studied, yet an understanding of how reward-related signals dynamically modulate the contributions of these circuits is lacking.
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Motor behaviors
Columbia Affiliations