ArticleCognitive, affective & behavioral neuroscience2023
To Do or Not to Do: The cerebellum and neocortex contribute to predicting sequences of social intentions.
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- A bias-accounting meta-analytic approach refines and expands the cerebellar behavioral topography.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 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
- Large-Scale Cerebellar-Cerebral Network Alterations Underlying Impaired Social Predictive Processing in Cerebellar Neurodegeneration.Cerebellum (London, England) · 2026Article
- Unraveling trauma memory: Differential functional connectivity profiles of anterior and posterior hippocampus in post-traumatic stress disorder and its dissociative subtype.Neuroimage. Reports · 2025Article
- A bias-accounting meta-analytic approach refines and expands the cerebellar behavioral topography.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Crus control: effective cerebello-cerebral connectivity during social action prediction using dynamic causal modelling.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Social and emotional learning in the cerebellum.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2024Review
- Create your own path: social cerebellum in sequence-based self-guided navigation.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2024Article
- 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
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Abstract
Humans read the minds of others to predict their actions and efficiently navigate social environments, a capacity called mentalizing. Accumulating evidence suggests that the cerebellum, especially Crus 1 and 2, and lobule IX are involved in identifying the sequence of others' actions. In the current study, we investigated the neural correlates that underly predicting others' intentions and how this plays out in the sequence of their actions. We developed a novel intention prediction task, which required participants to put protagonists' behaviors in the correct chronological order based on the protagonists' honest or deceitful intentions (i.e., inducing true or false beliefs in others). We found robust activation of cerebellar lobule IX and key mentalizing areas in the neocortex when participants ordered protagonists' intentional behaviors compared with not ordering behaviors or to ordering object scenarios. Unlike a previous task that involved prediction based on personality traits that recruited cerebellar Crus 1 and 2, and lobule IX (Haihambo et al., 2021), the present task recruited only the cerebellar lobule IX. These results suggest that cerebellar lobule IX may be generally involved in social action sequence prediction, and that different areas of the cerebellum are specialized for distinct mentalizing functions.
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