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Science 14 June 2002:
Vol. 296. no. 5575, pp. 1979 - 1980
DOI: 10.1126/science.1073926
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Perspectives

NEUROSCIENCE:
Can We Teach the Cerebellum New Tricks?

Eliot Hazeltine and Richard B. Ivry

What part does the cerebellum play when people learn to produce a new sequence of movements? In their Perspective, Hazeltine and Ivry discuss new work (Seidler et al.) suggesting that the cerebellum may not contribute to learning but rather is limited to the performance of the sequence.

E. Hazeltine is at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffet Field, CA 94035, USA. R. B. Ivry is in the Department of Psychology, University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA. E-mail: ehazeltine{at}mail.arc.nasa.gov

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