Voxelwise Encoding Models Show That Cerebellar Language Representations Are Highly Conceptual.

ABSTRACT: There is a growing body of research demonstrating that the cerebellum is involved in language understanding. Early theories assumed that the cerebellum is involved in low-level language processing. However, those theories are at odds with recent work demonstrating cerebellar activation during cognitive tasks. Using natural language stimuli and an encoding model framework, we performed an fMRI experiment on 3 men and 2 women, where subjects passively listened to 5 h of natural language stimuli, which allowed us to analyze language processing in the cerebellum with higher precision than previous work. We used these data to fit voxelwise encoding models with five different feature spaces that span the hierarchy of language processing from acoustic input to high-level conceptual processing. Ex

SUBMITTER: LeBel A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8672691 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature