ArticleCerebellum (London, England)2022
The Role of the Posterior Cerebellum in Dysfunctional Social Sequencing.
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- Predecompression and postdecompression cognitive and affective changes in Chiari malformation type I.Journal of neurosurgery · 2025Article
- Contributions of the posterior cerebellum to mentalizing and social functioning: A transdiagnostic investigation.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- Social and emotional learning in the cerebellum.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2024Review
- Cerebellar Neurostimulation for Boosting Social and Affective Functions: Implications for the Rehabilitation of Hereditary Ataxia Patients.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2024Review
- The Predictive Role of the Posterior Cerebellum in the Processing of Dynamic Emotions.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2024Article
- Cerebellar non-invasive stimulation of social and emotional mentalizing: A meta-analysis.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Cerebellar volume and functional connectivity in neonates predicts social and emotional development in toddlers.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Effective cerebello-cerebral connectivity during implicit and explicit social belief sequence learning using dynamic causal modeling.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2023Article
- Editorial: A multi-talented butterfly: the role of the cerebellum in social cognition, emotion, and language.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Article
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- A narrative sequencing and mentalizing training for adults with autism: A pilot study.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2022Article
- Individuals with autism have difficulties learning implicit sequences of social interactions that require mentalizing.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
- Exciting the social butterfly: Anodal cerebellar transcranial direct current stimulation modulates neural activation during predictive social mentalizing.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
- Can transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) of the cerebellum improve implicit social and cognitive sequence learning?International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
Recent advances in social neuroscience have highlighted the critical role of the cerebellum in social cognition, and especially the posterior cerebellum. Studies have supported the view that the posterior cerebellum builds internal action models of our social interactions to predict how other people's actions will be executed and what our most likely responses are to these actions. This mechanism allows to better anticipate action sequences during social interactions in an automatic and intuitive way and to fine-tune these anticipations, making it easier to understand other's social behaviors and mental states (e.g., beliefs, intentions, traits). In this paper, we argue that the central role of the posterior cerebellum in identifying and automatizing social action sequencing provides a fruitful starting point for investigating social dysfunctions in a variety of clinical pathologies, such as autism, obsessive-compulsive and bipolar disorder, depression, and addiction. Our key hypothesis is that dysfunctions of the posterior cerebellum lead to under- or overuse of inflexible social routines and lack of plasticity for learning new, more adaptive, social automatisms. We briefly review past research supporting this view and propose a program of research to test our hypothesis. This approach might alleviate a variety of mental problems of individuals who suffer from inflexible automatizations that stand in the way of adjustable and intuitive social behavior, by increasing posterior cerebellar plasticity using noninvasive neurostimulation or neuro-guided training programs.
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