The role of the cerebellum in reconstructing social action sequences: a pilot study.

ABSTRACT: Recent research has revealed that the cerebellum plays a critical role in social reasoning and in particular in understanding false beliefs and making trait attributions. One hypothesis is that the cerebellum is responsible for the understanding of sequences of motions and actions, which may be a prerequisite for social understanding. To investigate the role of action sequencing in mentalizing, we tested patients with generalized cerebellar degenerative lesions on tests of social understanding and compared their performance with matched healthy volunteers. The tests involved understanding violations of social norms making trait and causal attributions on the basis of short behavioral sentences and generating the correct chronological order of social actions depicted in cartoons (picture se

SUBMITTER: Van Overwalle F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6545532 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature