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The overarching problem addressed in this dissertation is the neural processing performed by interneurons in the cerebellar cortex. However, in order to complete the project it was necessary to perform a large amount of preliminary work, including software coding, behavior characterization, and technique development. This chapter presents the results of some of the preliminary work that is most pertinent to the following chapters. It is divided into four independent sections. I will first present a brief description of the software that I wrote to train squirrel monkeys in the oculomotor tasks used throughout my thesis work and to control the tasks during neuronal data acquisition. This is now the software that is used for all experiments on trained monkeys carried out in the Blazquez lab. I will then present the results of a behavioral characterization we performed to compare squirrel monkey oculomotor behavior with the oculomotor behavior of the monkey species more commonly used in oculomotor research, the rhesus macaque. These results are in preparation for publication. Third, I will present the results of an attempt to use juxtacellular labeling to morphologically identify cerebellar interneurons recorded in awake behaving squirrel monkeys. This project produced some positive steps in that direction but was ultimately abandoned due to insufficient yield. However, subsequently published work from other labs rendered juxtacellular labeling unnecessary to complete the experimental goals of the thesis. Last, I will present the results of a study on the use of multibarrel carbon fiber electrodes to record and

Roles Of Inhibitory Interneurons In Cerebellar Cortical Processing For Oculomotor Control