ArticleSocial cognitive and affective neuroscience2021
The posterior cerebellum and inconsistent trait implications when learning the sequence of actions.
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- Social and emotional learning in the cerebellum.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2024Review
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- Create your own path: social cerebellum in sequence-based self-guided navigation.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- The posterior cerebellum and social action sequences in a cooperative context.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2023Article
- To Do or Not to Do: The cerebellum and neocortex contribute to predicting sequences of social intentions.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2023Article
- Mind your step: social cerebellum in interactive navigation.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Article
- This is not who you are: The posterior cerebellum and stereotype-inconsistent action sequences.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- The posterior cerebellum and temporoparietal junction support explicit learning of social belief sequences.Cognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Evidence of the role of the cerebellum in cognitive theory of mind using voxel-based lesion mapping.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Individuals with autism have difficulties learning implicit sequences of social interactions that require mentalizing.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
It has been proposed that the cerebellum contributes to social cognition. Based on the view that cerebellar internal models create predictions on motions and actions, we hypothesize that the posterior cerebellum supports identifying temporal sequences of persons' actions as well as detecting inconsistent actions that violate the implied trait. Participants were required to memorize the temporal order of a set of sentences that implied a personality trait. Importantly, the sentence sets were designed in such a way that the first half of each set involved actions that were consistent with the same trait, while the other half was either consistent or inconsistent with that trait. As expected, we found robust posterior cerebellar activation when memorizing the order of the actions, irrespective of trait consistency, but more crucially also for actions implying an inconsistent trait in comparison to consistent trait actions. We also found that the medial prefrontal cortex and posterior cerebellum were associated with confidence level in retrieving the sequences. This study supports the hypothesis that the posterior cerebellum identifies and predicts the low-level temporal order of actions and demonstrates for the first time that this area is also involved in the high-level prediction of trait implications of those actions.
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