ReviewCerebellum (London, England)2022
The Involvement of the Posterior Cerebellum in Reconstructing and Predicting Social Action Sequences.
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- 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
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- Cerebellar growth is associated with domain-specific cerebral maturation and socio-linguistic behavior.Nature communications · 2026Article
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- Autism Spectrum Disorder: The Cerebellum, Genes, and Pathways.Neurology international · 2025Review
- Altered right inferior frontal gyrus-based functional connectivity associated with inhibition through swimming exercise in children with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.BMC pediatrics · 2025Article
- Unraveling trauma memory: Differential functional connectivity profiles of anterior and posterior hippocampus in post-traumatic stress disorder and its dissociative subtype.Neuroimage. Reports · 2025Article
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- A bias-accounting meta-analytic approach refines and expands the cerebellar behavioral topography.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- What Else Is Happening to the Mirror Neurons?-A Bibliometric Analysis of Mirror Neuron Research Trends and Future Directions (1996-2024).Brain and behavior · 2025Article
- Consensus Paper: Cerebellum and Reward.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2024Review
- A hierarchical atlas of the human cerebellum for functional precision mapping.Nature communications · 2024Article
- A hierarchical atlas of the human cerebellum for functional precision mapping.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Effects of the perceived temporal distance of events on mental time travel and on its underlying brain circuits.Experimental brain research · 2024Article
- One step too far: social cerebellum in norm-violating navigation.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- The Predictive Role of the Posterior Cerebellum in the Processing of Dynamic Emotions.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2024Article
- Create your own path: social cerebellum in sequence-based self-guided navigation.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- Functional connectivity of the sensorimotor cerebellum in autism: associations with sensory over-responsivity.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Cerebellar non-invasive stimulation of social and emotional mentalizing: A meta-analysis.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
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Abstract
Recent advances in social neuroscience have highlighted the critical role of the cerebellum and especially the posterior cerebellar Crus in social mentalizing (i.e., theory of mind). Research in the past 5 years has provided growing evidence supporting 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 to these actions will be. This paper presents an overview of a series of fMRI experiments on novel tasks involving a combination of (a) the learning or generation of chronological sequences of social actions either in an explicit or implicit manner, which (b) require social mentalizing on another person's mental state such as goals, beliefs, and implied traits. Together, the results strongly confirm the central role of the posterior cerebellar Crus in identifying and automatizing action sequencing during social mentalizing, and in predicting future action sequences based on social mentalizing inferences about others. This research program has important implications: It provides for the first time (a) fruitful starting points for diagnosing and investigating social sequencing dysfunctions in a variety of mental disorders which have also been related to cerebellar dysfunctions, (b) provides the necessary tools for testing whether non-invasive neurostimulation targeting the posterior cerebellum has a causal effect on social functioning, and (c) whether these stimulation techniques and training programs guided by novel cerebellar social sequencing insights, can be exploited to increase posterior cerebellar plasticity in order to alleviate social impairments in mental disorders.
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