par Habas, Christophe;van Dun, Kim;Manto, Mario 
;Mariën, Peter
Référence The Linguistic Cerebellum, Elsevier Inc., page (337-353)
Publication Publié, 2015-09
;Mariën, PeterRéférence The Linguistic Cerebellum, Elsevier Inc., page (337-353)
Publication Publié, 2015-09
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| Résumé : | The deep cerebellar nuclei (DCN) are the sole output channel of the cerebellum and form part of the cerebellar system of closed loops connected to the sensorimotor region, the associative cortices, and the limbic system. Besides a motor function, it has been suggested that the cerebellum, and therefore also the deep cerebellar nuclei, are involved in cognitive and linguistic processing as well. Studies using verb-generation tasks and Sternberg tasks have investigated the role of the DCN in lexical-semantic processing and verbal working memory, respectively. Neurophysiological, neuropsychological, and imaging studies provide increasing evidence for the involvement of the DCN in linguistic processing. The exact mechanisms, however, are still a matter of debate. It remains to be elucidated whether the contribution of the DCN to cognitive and linguistic functioning is language-specific or rather from general computational mechanisms also involved in motor functioning. |
