Named for Jan Evangelista Purkyně, a cerebellar neuron receiving many parallel fiber inputs and a powerful climbing fiber input. Simple-spike and complex-spike responses provide distinct physiological readouts in studies of motor learning.
Figure 1.
Purkinje cells and granule cells in a pigeon cerebellum, drawn by Santiago Ramón y Cajal in 1899
. The large, branching cells labelled A are Purkinje cells; the smaller cells labelled B are granule cells. Historical drawing held by Instituto Cajal, Madrid. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Source.

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