Social and emotional learning in the cerebellum.


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Nature reviews. Neuroscience
ISSN: 1471-0048
Titre abrégé: Nat Rev Neurosci
Pays: England
ID NLM: 100962781

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Date de publication:
21 Oct 2024
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accepted: 20 09 2024
medline: 22 10 2024
pubmed: 22 10 2024
entrez: 21 10 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

The posterior cerebellum has a critical role in human social and emotional learning. Three systems and related neural networks support this cerebellar function: a biological action observation system as part of an extended sensorimotor integration network, a mentalizing system for understanding a person's mental and emotional state subserved by a mentalizing network, and a limbic network supporting core emotional (dis)pleasure and arousal processes. In this Review, I describe how these systems and networks support social and emotional learning via functional reciprocal connections initiating and terminating in the posterior cerebellum and cerebral neocortex. It is hypothesized that a major function of the posterior cerebellum is to identify and encode temporal sequences of events, which might help to fine-tune and automatize social and emotional learning. I discuss research using neuroimaging and non-invasive stimulation that provides converging evidence for this hypothesized function of cerebellar sequencing, but also other potential functional accounts of the posterior cerebellum's role in these social and emotional processes.

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doi: 10.1038/s41583-024-00871-5
pii: 10.1038/s41583-024-00871-5
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Frank Van Overwalle (F)

Faculty of Psychology and Center for Neuroscience, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium. Frank.VanOverwalle@vub.be.

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