The posterior cerebellum and inconsistent trait implications when learning the sequence of actions.

ABSTRACT: It has been proposed that the cerebellum contributes to social cognition. Based on the view that cerebellar internal models create predictions on motions and actions, we hypothesize that the posterior cerebellum supports identifying temporal sequences of persons' actions as well as detecting inconsistent actions that violate the implied trait. Participants were required to memorize the temporal order of a set of sentences that implied a personality trait. Importantly, the sentence sets were designed in such a way that the first half of each set involved actions that were consistent with the same trait, while the other half was either consistent or inconsistent with that trait. As expected, we found robust posterior cerebellar activation when memorizing the order of the actions, irrespectiv

SUBMITTER: Pu M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8259289 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature