title: Consensus paper: the cerebellum's role in movement and cognition.
abstract: While the cerebellum's role in motor function is well recognized, the nature of its concurrent role in cognitive function remains considerably less clear. The current consensus paper gathers diverse views on a variety of important roles played by the cerebellum across a range of cognitive and emotional functions. This paper considers the cerebellum in relation to neurocognitive development, language function, working memory, executive function, and the development of cerebellar internal control models and reflects upon some of the ways in which better understanding the cerebellum's status as a "supervised learning machine" can enrich our ability to understand human function and adaptation. As all contributors agree that the cerebellum plays a role in cognition, there is also an agreement that this conclusion remains highly inferential. Many conclusions about the role of the cerebellum in cognition originate from applying known information about cerebellar contributions to the coordination and quality of movement. These inferences are based on the uniformity of the cerebellum's compositional infrastructure and its apparent modular organization. There is considerable support for this view, based upon observations of patients with pathology within the cerebellum.
authors.affiliation: , Chicago, IL, USA.
authors.forename: Leonard F
authors.initials: LF
authors.lastname: Koziol
authors.forename: Deborah
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Budding
authors.forename: Nancy
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Andreasen
authors.forename: Stefano
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: D'Arrigo
authors.forename: Sara
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bulgheroni
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Imamizu
authors.forename: Masao
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ito
authors.forename: Mario
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Manto
authors.forename: Cherie
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Marvel
authors.forename: Krystal
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Parker
authors.forename: Giovanni
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Pezzulo
authors.forename: Narender
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ramnani
authors.forename: Daria
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Riva
authors.forename: Jeremy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Schmahmann
authors.forename: Larry
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Vandervert
authors.forename: Tadashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yamazaki
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002526:Cerebellar Diseases / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000254:growth & development / Q000502:physiology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D032921:Consensus; D006801:Humans; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D008606:Mental Processes / Q000502:physiology; D009043:Motor Activity / Q000502:physiology*; D009068:Movement / Q000502:physiology*