Consensus Paper: The Cerebellum's Role in Movement and Cognition

By L. Koziol, D. Budding, N. Andreasen, S. D'Arrigo, S. Bulgheroni, H. Imamizu, Masao Ito, M. Manto, C. Marvel, Krystal Parker and 6 more. Cerebellum, 2013

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While the cerebellum's role in motor function is well recognized, the nature of its concurrent role in cognitive function remains considerably less clear. The current consensus paper gathers diverse views on a variety of important roles played by the cerebellum across a range of cognitive and emotional functions. This paper considers the cerebellum in relation to neurocognitive development, language function, working memory, executive function, and the development of cerebellar internal control models and reflects upon some of the ways in which better understanding the cerebellum's status as a “supervised learning machine” can enrich our ability to understand human function and adaptation. As all contributors agree that the cerebellum plays a role in cognition, there is also an agreement that this conclusion remains highly inferential. Many conclusions about the role of the cerebellum in cognition originate from applying known information about cerebellar contributions to the coordination and quality of movement. These inferences are based on the uniformity of the cerebellum's compositional infrastructure and its apparent modular organization. There is considerable support for this view, based upon observations of patients with pathology within the cerebellum.

Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Neurology, Social Psychology

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Purkinje cells directly inhibit granule cells in specialized regions of the cerebellar cortex (2016, neutral): “It controls balance and motor coordination, and plays a role in non-motor functions, such as cognition and emotion (Koziol et al., 2014; Schmahmann, 2004).”
TRIPLE REPRESENTATION OF LANGUAGE, WORKING MEMORY, SOCIAL AND EMOTION PROCESSING IN THE CEREBELLUM: CONVERGENT EVIDENCE FROM TASK AND SEED-BASED RESTING-STATE FMRI ANALYSES IN A SINGLE LARGE COHORT (2018, background): “but also in cognitive and affective functions (Schmahmann, 1991, 1996, 1997; Middleton and Strick, 1994; Schmahmann and Sherman, 1998; Levisohn et al., 2000; Riva and Giorgi, 2000; Ravizza et al., 2006; Schmahmann et al., 2007; Baillieux et al., 2008; Stoodley and Schmahmann, 2009; Thompson and Stei”
The Cerebellum, Sensitive Periods, and Autism (2014, background): “…by disturbances of planning, decision making, and working memory, deficits in visuospatial reasoning, speech-generation deficits, verbal reasoning defects, personality changes, anxiety, and blunted or inappropriate social behavior (Koziol et al., 2014; Schmahmann, 2004; Wolf et al., 2009).”
Computational Principles of Supervised Learning in the Cerebellum (2018, positive): “…cerebellar modules support many functions, including fine motor control and navigation (Lefort et al. 2015), learned fear and other emotions (Perciavalle et al. 2013, Strata 2015), reward (Mittleman et al. 2008), and cognitive processing (Hoche et al. 2016, Koziol et al. 2014, Sokolov et al. 2017).”
Consensus Paper: Towards a Systems-Level View of Cerebellar Function: the Interplay Between Cerebellum, Basal Ganglia, and Cortex (2016, background): “Another emerging theme across several contributions of this consensus paper is that the systems-level view pursued here could be important to re-think the traditional hypotheses on the motor and especially the cognitive functions of the cerebellum in the light of the most recent evidence ([1, 2, 133”