Visual circuits from cerebral cortex to cerebellum; the link through pons

Abstract

This chapter reviews some anatomical, behavioral, and physiological studies that bear on the role of the sensory input to the cerebellum via the pons in general and the visual input in particular. The core of the argument is that in monkeys, the visual input comes from those extrastriate visual areas that are involved in motion detection and visual control of movement. Studies of other inputs and other species are cited when they are relevant to the more general issue of the nature of sensory input to the cerebellum.