The function of the cerebellum in cognition, affect and consciousness: Empirical support for the embodied mind

Authors: Schmahmann, J.D.¹; Anderson, C.M.²; Newton, N.³; Ellis, R.³

Source: Consciousness & Emotion, Volume 2, Number 2, 2002 , pp. 273-309(37)

Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Abstract:

Editors' note: These four interrelated discussions of the role of the cerebellum in coordinating emotional and higher cognitive functions developed out of a workshop presented by the four authors for the 2000 Conference of the Cognitive Science Society at the University of Pennsylvania. The four interrelated discussions explore the implications of the recent explosion of cerebellum research suggesting an expanded cerebellar role in higher cognitive functions as well as in the coordination of emotional functions with learning, logical thinking, perceptual consciousness, and action planning

Keywords: cerebellum; emotion; action; dysmetria of thought; embodied mind; cerebellar vermis; schizophrenia; autism; consciousness

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ce.2.2.06sch

Affiliations: 1: M. D., Harvard Medical School, Mass. General Hospital 2: Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital 3: Editor of _Consciousness & Emotion_

Publication date: 2002-03-01