The Cerebellum in Social Cognition

Furthermore, absent late positive event-related potential on electroencephalography (EEG) during processing of emotional face expressions in patients with cerebellar stroke indicated the network for interpretation of emotional information may be altered after cerebellar damage (Adamaszek et al., 2015). Cerebellar Activation and Connectivity Patterns in Social Cognition A meta-analysis of over 350 functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) studies reported consistent cerebellar activations during different tasks on social cognition, including observation of human motion, mentalizing about intentions in social interactions, inference on personality traits and abstraction (Van Overwalle et al., 2014). Besides its unrivaled potential for fundamental discovery, the causality afforded by cellular neuroscience is very helpful to evaluate hypotheses. In Long-Evans rats, delta band coherence was found between deep cerebellar nuclei and contralateral medial frontal cortex, and muscimol-mediated inactivation of their deep cerebellar nuclei neurons altered interval timing performance.