title: Processing past tense in the left cerebellum.
abstract: We report the case of a patient with ischemic lesion of the left cerebellum, who showed specific deficits in processing past versus future tense of action verbs. These findings confirm, in the presence of cerebellar damage, previous results obtained with transcranial magnetic stimulation in healthy subjects and suggest a specificity of the left cerebellum for preparation of responses to the past tense of action verbs. As part of the procedural brain, the cerebellum could play a role in applying the linguistic rules for selection of morphemes typical of past and future tense formation.
authors.affiliation: a Dipartimento di Psicologia , Università di Palermo , Palermo , Italy.
authors.forename: Giuseppa Renata
authors.initials: GR
authors.lastname: Mangano
authors.forename: Patrizia
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Turriziani
authors.forename: Sonia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Bonnì
authors.forename: Carlo
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Caltagirone
authors.forename: Massimiliano
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Oliveri
mesh_terms: D002545:Brain Ischemia / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D002531:Cerebellum / Q000473:pathology*; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D008037:Linguistics; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D011930:Reaction Time
keywords: cerebellum; future; language; past; time; verbs