Intracerebellar conditioning — Brogden and Gantt revisited

In 1942, Brogden and Gantt reported that electrical stimulation of cerebellar white matter elicited specific behavioral responses (limb flexion, eyeblink, etc.) and that these movements so elicited could easily be conditioned to a neural tone CS, using standard Pavlovian procedures. This early evidence for the key role of the cerebellum in learning of discrete movements has in recent years been replicated and much extended. It is now clear that the cerebellum is the essential structure for associative learning of discrete movements elicited by peripheral aversive or intracerebellar stimuli and that the memory traces so formed are stored in the cerebellum.