Climbing fibers encode the gradient of a loss function for the cerebellum
Jafar Doostmohammadi, Nazanin Mohammadrezaei, Hisham Y. Elseweifi, Alana Chandler, Elijah A. Taeckens, Reza Shadmehr
The paper shows climbing fibers in the cerebellum encode the gradient of a loss function, solving the credit assignment problem by scaling error with reward prediction errors.
bioRxiv · Jul 28, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience