The posterior Cerebellum is involved in constructing Social Action Sequences: An fMRI Study

Scientific Reports
Elien HelevenFrank Van Overwalle

Abstract

Social neuroscience largely ignored the role of the cerebellum, despite its implications in a broad range of tasks and neurological disorders related to social functioning and inferences on others' mental state such as beliefs. One hypothesis states that during human evolution, the cerebellum's function evolved from a mere coordinator of fluent sequences of motions and actions, to an interpreter of action sequences without overt movements that are important for social understanding. The present study introduces new tasks to investigate the role of the cerebellum in sequencing, in which participants generated the correct chronological order of new or well-known event stories with or without social elements during functional neuroimaging (fMRI). Results showed strong cerebellar activation during order generation for all event types compared to passive viewing or reading events. More importantly, new social events involving true or false beliefs showed stronger activation in the bilateral posterior cerebellum (Crus 1 and Crus 2) compared to routine social and non-social (mechanical) events. This confirms the critical role of the posterior cerebellum in the understanding and construction of the correct order of action sequences rel...Continue Reading

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Dec 4, 2019·Current Opinion in Neurology·Mario MantoMichael Strupp
Feb 13, 2020·The Cerebellum·Maitane GarcíaJon Infante
Jul 8, 2020·The Cerebellum·Frank Van OverwalleMaria Leggio
Jun 5, 2020·Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience·Min PuFrank Van Overwalle
Sep 6, 2020·Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience·Frank Van OverwalleElien Heleven
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Dec 22, 2020·Neuroscience·Ryoko KasabaAkemi Tomoda
Mar 16, 2021·Frontiers in Human Neuroscience·Elien HelevenFrank Van Overwalle
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Jun 9, 2021·Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience·Qianying MaFrank Van Overwalle
Aug 19, 2021·Social Neuroscience·Meijia LiFrank Van Overwalle
Oct 13, 2021·The Cerebellum·Frank Van OverwalleKris Baetens
Nov 24, 2021·Cognitive, Affective & Behavioral Neuroscience·Qianying MaFrank Van Overwalle

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