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Functional recruitment and connectivity of the cerebellum is associated with the emergence of Theory of Mind in early childhood.
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- A bias-accounting meta-analytic approach refines and expands the cerebellar behavioral topography.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2025Pooled it
- Atypical Cerebellar Responses are Associated with Altered Neural Habituation during Sensory Stimulation in Autism.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2026Article
- Cerebellar growth is associated with domain-specific cerebral maturation and socio-linguistic behavior.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Optimizing functional connectivity scanning conditions for predicting autistic traits.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Optimizing functional connectivity scanning conditions for predicting autistic traits.Nature. Mental health · 2026Article
- A bias-accounting meta-analytic approach refines and expands the cerebellar behavioral topography.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Functional recruitment and connectivity of the cerebellum is associated with the emergence of Theory of Mind in early childhood.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Beyond motor learning: Insights from infant magnetic resonance imaging on the critical role of the cerebellum in behavioral development.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2025Review
- Human cerebellum and social navigation: cerebello-cerebral connectivity using dynamic causal modelling.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
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Abstract
There is accumulating evidence that the human cerebellum is heavily implicated in adult social cognition. Yet, its involvement in the development of Theory of Mind (ToM), a hallmark of social cognition, remains elusive. Using openly available functional MRI data of children with emerging ToM abilities (N = 41, age range: 3-12 years) and adults (N = 78), we show that children who pass a false-belief assessment of ToM abilities activate cerebellar Crus I-II in response to ToM events during a movie-watching task, similar to adults. This activation is not statistically significant in children who do not pass the ToM assessment. Functional connectivity profiles between cerebellar and cerebral ToM regions differ as a function of children's ToM abilities. Notably, task-driven connectivity shifts from upstream to downstream connections between cerebellar and cerebral ToM regions from childhood to adulthood. Greater dependence on connections emerging from the cerebellum early in life suggests an important role of the cerebellum in establishing the cognitive processes underlying ToM in childhood and thus for the undisrupted development of social cognition.
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