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Cerebellar internal models: implications for the dexterous use of tools.
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- Sensorimotor Challenges in Minimally Invasive Surgery: A Theoretically-Oriented Review.Human factors · 2025Review
- The Evolution of the Optimization of Cognitive and Social Functions in the Cerebellum and Thereby the Rise of Homo sapiens Through Cumulative Culture.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2024Review
- The Cerebellum as an Embodying Machine.The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry · 2024Review
- Respective Involvement of the Right Cerebellar Crus I and II in Syntactic and Semantic Processing for Comprehension of Language.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2023Article
- Simultaneous fMRI and tDCS for Enhancing Training of Flight Tasks.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- The cerebellum-driven social basis of mathematics: implications for one-on-one tutoring of children with mathematics learning disabilities.Cerebellum & ataxias · 2021Article
- Efference copy in kinesthetic perception: a copy of what is it?Journal of neurophysiology · 2021Review
- The Forward Model: A Unifying Theory for the Role of the Cerebellum in Motor Control and Sense of Agency.Frontiers in systems neuroscience · 2021Article
- Model-Based Prediction of Operation Consequences When Driving a Car to Compensate for a Partially Restricted Visual Field by A-Pillars.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
- Consensus Paper: Cerebellum and Social Cognition.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2020Review
- Practice modality of motor sequences impacts the neural signature of motor imagery.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- The prominent role of the cerebellum in the social learning of the phonological loop in working memory: How language was adaptively built from cerebellar inner speech required during stone-tool making.AIMS neuroscience · 2020Article
- Distinct roles of brain activity and somatotopic representation in pathophysiology of focal dystonia.Human brain mapping · 2019Article
- Visuospatial Organization and Recall in Cerebellar Ataxia.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2019Article
- The evolution of theory of mind (ToM) within the evolution of cerebellar sequence detection in stone-tool making and language: implications for studies of higher-level cognitive functions in degenerative cerebellar atrophy.Cerebellum & ataxias · 2019Article
- Feedforward and Feedback Control Share an Internal Model of the Arm's Dynamics.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2018Article
- Cerebellar grey matter modifications in lower limb amputees not using prosthesis.Scientific reports · 2018Article
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Abstract
Humans have remarkable abilities in the dexterous use of tools to extend their physical capabilities. Although previous neuropsychological and functional neuroimaging studies have mainly focused on the contribution of frontal-parietal cerebral networks to skills for tool use, dense anatomical and functional connections are known to exist between the frontal-parietal regions and the lateral cerebellum, suggesting that the cerebellum also supports the information processing necessary for the dexterous use of tools. In this article, we review functional and structural imaging studies reporting that the cerebellum is related to the learning acquisition of neural mechanisms representing input-output properties of controlled objects, including tools. These studies also suggest that such mechanisms are modularly organized in the cerebellum corresponding to the different properties of objects, such as kinematic or dynamic properties and types of tools, and that they enable humans to flexibly cope with discrete changes in objects and environments by reducing interference and combining acquired modules. Based on these studies, we propose a hypothesis that the cerebellum contributes to the skillful use of tools by representing the input-output properties of tools and providing information on the prediction of the sensory consequences of manipulation with the parietal regions, which are related to multisensory processing, and information on the necessary control of tools with the premotor regions, which contribute to the control of hand movements.
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