ReviewCerebellum (London, England)2020
Consensus Paper: Cerebellum and Social Cognition.
Review in Cerebellum (London, England), 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 253 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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253 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 433 citations in OpenAlex.
- Prevalence of Cerebellar Cognitive Affective Syndrome in Patients with Cerebellar Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2026Pooled it
- A neuroimaging meta-analysis on social impression formation of stable characteristics.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2026Pooled it
- A bias-accounting meta-analytic approach refines and expands the cerebellar behavioral topography.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Neural correlates of negative aesthetic evaluations in visual art: a neuroimaging meta-analysis.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Pooled it
- Cognition in cerebellar disorders: What's in the profile? A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of neurology · 2025Pooled it
- Mentalizing About Dynamic Social Action Sequences Is Supported by the Cerebellum, Basal Ganglia, and Neocortex: A Meta-Analysis of Activation and Connectivity.Human brain mapping · 2024Pooled it
- The Role of the Human Cerebellum for Learning from and Processing of External Feedback in Non-Motor Learning: A Systematic Review.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2024Pooled it
- A Systematic Review of Cognition in Cervical Dystonia.Neuropsychology review · 2024Pooled it
- Meta-analytic connectivity modelling of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies in autism spectrum disorders.Brain imaging and behavior · 2023Pooled it
- Feasibility and Efficacy of a Virtual Reality Social Prediction Training in Children and Young Adults with Congenital Cerebellar Malformations.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Trial
- Cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation improves quality of life in individuals with chronic poststroke aphasia.Scientific reports · 2025Trial
- Modulation of Resting-State Brain Complexity After Bilateral Cerebellar Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders: a Randomized Controlled Trial Study.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2023Trial
- Modulating mental state recognition by anodal tDCS over the cerebellum.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- Amygdala-putamen connectivity links gratitude to greater well-being.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2026Article
- Cerebellar Crus I and Crus II Structure and Excitation/Inhibition Balance in Autism Spectrum Disorder.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2026Article
- Large-Scale Cerebellar-Cerebral Network Alterations Underlying Impaired Social Predictive Processing in Cerebellar Neurodegeneration.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2026Article
- Striatal social reward sensitivity predicts trust-related brain responses depending on closeness and depression.Biological psychology · 2026Article
- Myelin, white matter, and social deficits in autism spectrum disorder.Neural regeneration research · 2026Article
- Cerebellar Contributions to Cerebral Connectivity in Severe Mental Illness: A Developmental Cascade and Predictive-Modeling Framework with Autistic Disorder as the Focal Case.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Atypical Cerebellar Responses are Associated with Altered Neural Habituation during Sensory Stimulation in Autism.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
193 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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21 authors at 12 institutions in 5 countries.
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Abstract
The traditional view on the cerebellum is that it controls motor behavior. Although recent work has revealed that the cerebellum supports also nonmotor functions such as cognition and affect, only during the last 5 years it has become evident that the cerebellum also plays an important social role. This role is evident in social cognition based on interpreting goal-directed actions through the movements of individuals (social "mirroring") which is very close to its original role in motor learning, as well as in social understanding of other individuals' mental state, such as their intentions, beliefs, past behaviors, future aspirations, and personality traits (social "mentalizing"). Most of this mentalizing role is supported by the posterior cerebellum (e.g., Crus I and II). The most dominant hypothesis is that the cerebellum assists in learning and understanding social action sequences, and so facilitates social cognition by supporting optimal predictions about imminent or future social interaction and cooperation. This consensus paper brings together experts from different fields to discuss recent efforts in understanding the role of the cerebellum in social cognition, and the understanding of social behaviors and mental states by others, its effect on clinical impairments such as cerebellar ataxia and autism spectrum disorder, and how the cerebellum can become a potential target for noninvasive brain stimulation as a therapeutic intervention. We report on the most recent empirical findings and techniques for understanding and manipulating cerebellar circuits in humans. Cerebellar circuitry appears now as a key structure to elucidate social interactions.
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