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A causal role for the cerebellum in semantic integration: a transcranial magnetic stimulation study.
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- Probing the linguistic cerebellum: a qualitative review of the effects of cerebellar neurostimulation on language processing.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Pooled it
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- The cerebellum specializes for language even in the absence of contralateral neocortical inputs.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
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- An update on the effects of cerebellar transcranial magnetic stimulation on cognitive function.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2026Review
- A Novel Approach to Map the Causal Impact of Brain Stimulation on Semantic Processing With Language Models.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Prefrontal and Cerebellar Contributions to Semantic Memory Retrieval.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- The cerebellar components of the human language network.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- The Cerebellum Is Sensitive to the Lexical Properties of Words During Spoken Language Comprehension.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Theta burst stimulation on the fronto-cerebellar connective network promotes cognitive processing speed in the simple cognitive task.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- Disrupted network interactions serve as a neural marker of dyslexia.Communications biology · 2023Article
- Effects of Combined Intervention of rTMS and Neurotransmitter Drugs on the Brain Functional Networks in Patients with Cognitive Impairment.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Dysfunctional cerebello-cerebral network associated with vocal emotion recognition impairments.Cerebral cortex communications · 2023Article
- Environmental Enrichment Enhances Cerebellar Compensation and Develops Cerebellar Reserve.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Review
- Is the vertex a good control stimulation site? Theta burst stimulation in healthy controls.Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996) · 2022Article
- Decoding Digital Visual Stimulation From Neural Manifold With Fuzzy Leaning on Cortical Oscillatory Dynamics.Frontiers in computational neuroscience · 2022Article
- Theta burst stimulation over left cerebellum does not modulate auditory feedback control of vocal production.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2022Article
- The Human Cerebellum as a Hub of the Predictive Brain.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- A narrative review on non-invasive stimulation of the cerebellum in neurological diseases.Neurological sciences : official journal of the Italian Neurological Society and of the Italian Society of Clinical Neurophysiology · 2021Review
- The Effect of Focal Damage to the Right Medial Posterior Cerebellum on Word and Sentence Comprehension and Production.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2021Article
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Abstract
Mounting evidence suggests that the cerebellum, a structure previously linked to motor function, is also involved in a wide range of non-motor processes. It has been proposed that the cerebellum performs the same computational processes in both motor and non-motor domains. Within motor functions, the cerebellum is involved in the integration of signals from multiple systems. Here we hypothesized that cerebellum may be involved in integration within semantic memory as well. Specifically, understanding a noun-adjective combination (e.g. red apple) requires combining the meaning of the adjective (red) with the meaning of the noun (apple). In two experiments, participants were asked to judge whether noun-adjective word-pairs were semantically related (e.g., red apple) or not (e.g., lucky milk) while online transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) was administered over the right cerebellum or over a control site (vertex in Experiment 1 and visual cortex in Experiment 2). Cerebellar TMS caused a decrease in participants' accuracy for related word-pairs while accuracy for unrelated stimuli was not affected. A third experiment using a control task where subjects compared pairs of random letters showed no effect of TMS. Taken together these results indicate that the right cerebellum is involved specifically in the processing of semantically related stimuli. These results are consistent with theories that proposed the existence of a unified cerebellar function within motor and non-motor domains, as well with recent perspectives about cerebellar involvement in semantic memory and predictive cognition.
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