OxTalks will soon move to the new Halo platform and will become 'Oxford Events.' There will be a need for an OxTalks freeze. This was previously planned for Friday 14th November – a new date will be shared as soon as it is available (full details will be available on the Staff Gateway).
In the meantime, the OxTalks site will remain active and events will continue to be published.
If staff have any questions about the Oxford Events launch, please contact halo@digital.ox.ac.uk
We know that both the cerebellum and sleep are implicated in learning new procedural skills, yet the sleeping cerebellum has been largely overlooked by neuroscience. Using wireless recording in unrestrained non-human primates, we are investigating cerebellar activity and cerebro-cerebellar communication during natural sleep. We observe many of the neocortical hallmarks of sleep also evident in the cerebellum and, surprisingly, communication at spindle frequencies directed from the cerebellum to the neocortex. I will interpret these data in the context of a hypothesis of how internal models in the cerebellum might play a role in sleep-dependent motor learning.
