Lesage, E, Nailer, EL and Miall, RC (2015) Cerebellar BOLD signal during the acquisition of a new lexicon predicts its early consolidation. Brain Lang, 161. pp. 33-44. ISSN 1090-2155

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Abstract

Cerebellar contributions to language are presently poorly understood, but it has been argued that the cerebellar role in motor learning can be extended to learning in cognitive and linguistic domains. Here, we used fMRI to investigate whether the cerebellum is recruited in mapping novel words onto existing semantic concepts. On separate days, participants performed a Basque vocabulary learning task and a control English synonym task in the MRI scanner. Learning-related BOLD activity was found in left inferior frontal gyrus, bilateral insula, pre-SMA, left superior parietal cortex, right caudate, the right cerebellar vermis and right cerebellar Crus II. The extent to which the cerebellar regions, but not the cerebral areas, were recruited during learning correlated positively with participants' off-line improvement in performance after the learning task. These data provide evidence for a cerebellar role in lexical learning, and suggest that the right cerebellum may contribute toward consolidation of lexico-semantic associations in the language network.

Item Type: Article
Additional Information: This is the accepted author manuscript (AAM). The final published version (version of record) is available online via Elsevier at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2015.07.005 Please refer to any applicable terms of use of the publisher.
Uncontrolled Keywords: Cerebellum, Language, Vocabulary, Learning, Lexicon, fMRI, Word association, Non-motor
Subjects: B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology
Divisions: Faculty of Natural Sciences > School of Psychology
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Depositing User: Symplectic
Date Deposited: 19 Oct 2015 13:44
Last Modified: 13 Mar 2020 09:21
URI: https://eprints.keele.ac.uk/id/eprint/1043

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