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What is a flocculus?

What is a flocculus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A small fluffy tuft.
  2. (anatomy) Either of two small lobes on the posterior border of the cerebellum.
  3. (astronomy) A marking on the surface of the sun associated with a solar prominence.
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Solar flares are sudden brightening of flocculus near an active sunspot group, becoming brilliant within a few minutes.
The appearance of a weak field leads to the appearance of a flocculus.
The sensory consequences of motor error were retinal slip, delivered as climbing fiber input to the flocculus.
The flocculus is a brain region that integrates signals from joints, muscles, skin and balance organs.
Down-beat nystagmus is usually due to bilateral dysfunction of the flocculus of the cerebellum.
A copy of the eye-movement command was sent as mossy-fiber input to the flocculus, represented as a simple adaptive filter version of the Marr Albus architecture.

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