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Social cognition and the cerebellum: A meta-analytic connectivity analysis.
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103 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 215 citations in OpenAlex.
- A neuroimaging meta-analysis on social impression formation of stable characteristics.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2026Pooled it
- Multimodal Analysis of Secondary Cerebellar Alterations After Pediatric Traumatic Brain Injury.JAMA network open · 2023Pooled it
- The posterior crus II cerebellum is specialized for social mentalizing and emotional self-experiences: a meta-analysis.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2020Pooled it
- The Cerebellum in Frontotemporal Dementia: a Meta-Analysis of Neuroimaging Studies.Neuropsychology review · 2019Pooled it
- Modulating mental state recognition by anodal tDCS over the cerebellum.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- Large-Scale Cerebellar-Cerebral Network Alterations Underlying Impaired Social Predictive Processing in Cerebellar Neurodegeneration.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2026Article
- The cerebro-cerebellar system: Integrative roles in motor control, cognition, and neuropsychiatric disorders.IBRO neuroscience reports · 2026Review
- Neural correlates of social cognition in stroke and traumatic brain injury: A systematic review.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2026Review
- Right anterior supramarginal gyrus-cerebellum hyperconnectivity and rumination partially mediate the link between childhood abuse and anger in late-life depression.Journal of affective disorders · 2026Article
- Schizophrenia Following Early Adolescence Prodrome: A Neurodevelopmental Subtype With Autism-like Sensorimotor and Social Cognition Deficits.Schizophrenia bulletin · 2025Article
- False Beliefs, True Deficits: Investigating Social Cognition in Friedreich Ataxia.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2025Article
- Functional recruitment and connectivity of the cerebellum is associated with the emergence of Theory of Mind in early childhood.Nature communications · 2025Article
- The Cerebellum and Striatum in Reward Processing: Caring About Being Right vs. Caring About Reward.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Toward a neuroaesthetics of interactions: Insights from dance on the aesthetics of individual and interacting bodies.iScience · 2025Review
- Optimizing selectivity of the Cerebellar Cognitive Affective Syndrome Scale by use of correction formulas, and validation of its German version.Journal of neurology · 2025Article
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- Cerebellar dysfunction in frontotemporal dementia: intra-cerebellar pathology and cerebellar network degeneration.Journal of neurology · 2025Article
- Crus control: effective cerebello-cerebral connectivity during social action prediction using dynamic causal modelling.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Neural correlates of pain acceptance and the role of the cerebellum: Functional connectivity and anatomical differences in individuals with headaches versus matched controls.European journal of pain (London, England) · 2025Article
- Cerebellar Neuromodulation in Autism Spectrum Disorders and Social Cognition: Insights from Animal and Human Studies.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2025Review
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Abstract
This meta-analytic connectivity modeling (MACM) study explores the functional connectivity of the cerebellum with the cerebrum in social cognitive processes. In a recent meta-analysis, Van Overwalle, Baetens, Mariën, and Vandekerckhove (2014) documented that the cerebellum is implicated in social processes of "body" reading (mirroring; e.g., understanding other persons' intentions from observing their movements) and "mind" reading (mentalizing, e.g., inferring other persons' beliefs, intentions or personality traits, reconstructing persons' past, future, or hypothetical events). In a recent functional connectivity study, Buckner et al. (2011) offered a novel parcellation of cerebellar topography that substantially overlaps with the cerebellar meta-analytic findings of Van Overwalle et al. (2014). This overlap suggests that the involvement of the cerebellum in social reasoning depends on its functional connectivity with the cerebrum. To test this hypothesis, we explored the meta-analytic co-activations as indices of functional connectivity between the cerebellum and the cerebrum during social cognition. The MACM results confirm substantial and distinct connectivity with respect to the functions of (a) action understanding ("body" reading) and (b) mentalizing ("mind" reading). The consistent and strong connectivity findings of this analysis suggest that cerebellar activity during social judgments reflects distinct mirroring and mentalizing functionality, and that these cerebellar functions are connected with corresponding functional networks in the cerebrum.
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