Mapping cerebellar function across cognitive domains

Abstract

In recent years, the cerebellum has been increasingly implicated in both cognition and clinical conditions. These findings views of the cerebellum as a purely motor structure. By reviewing recent advances in mapping cerebellar function social, language, and emotion processing – and discussing its role beyond the motor domain, this session will outline perspective on cerebellar contributions to cognition.

Caroline Nettekoven

Wellcome Research Fellow

The cerebellum holds most of the brain’s neurons, yet we still don’t know what it does for thought, language, or emotion. I build precise maps of it and use brain stimulation to find out.