The role of the cerebellum in reconstructing social action sequences: a pilot study

Autor: Peter Mariën, Frank Van Overwalle, Gaetano Perrotta, Sarah De Coninck, Nordeyn Oulad Ben Taib, Mario Manto, Elien Heleven
Přispěvatelé: Psychology, Brain, Body and Cognition, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Language and literature, Centre for Linguistics
Rok vydání: 2019
Předmět:
Male
Cerebellum
cerebellum
Cognitive Neuroscience
Repression
Psychology
Theory of Mind
Pilot Projects
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Neuropsychological Tests
050105 experimental psychology
Task (project management)
03 medical and health sciences
Social actions
Cognition
0302 clinical medicine
Mentalization
Theory of mind
social mentalizing
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Social Behavior
theory of mind
Aged
Spinocerebellar Degenerations
05 social sciences
Neurosciences cognitives
Psychologie expérimentale
General Medicine
Middle Aged
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Healthy Volunteers
medicine.anatomical_structure
Social Perception
Action (philosophy)
Trait
Original Article
Female
Psychology
Attribution
Psychologie cognitive
Psychomotor Performance
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Cognitive psychology
Zdroj: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience
Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience (Online), 14 (5
ISSN: 1749-5024
DOI: 10.1093/scan/nsz032
Popis: Recent research has revealed that the cerebellum plays a critical role in social reasoning and in particular in understanding false beliefs and making trait attributions. One hypothesis is that the cerebellum is responsible for the understanding of sequences of motions and actions, which may be a prerequisite for social understanding. To investigate the role of action sequencing in mentalizing, we tested patients with generalized cerebellar degenerative lesions on tests of social understanding and compared their performance with matched healthy volunteers. The tests involved understanding violations of social norms making trait and causal attributions on the basis of short behavioral sentences and generating the correct chronological order of social actions depicted in cartoons (picture sequencing task). Cerebellar patients showed clear deficits only on the picture sequencing task when generating the correct order of cartoons depicting false belief stories and showed at or close to normal performance for mechanical stories and overlearned social scripts. In addition, they performed marginally worse on trait attributions inferred from verbal behavioral descriptions. We conclude that inferring the mental state of others through understanding the correct sequences of their actions requires the support of the cerebellum.
SCOPUS: ar.j
info:eu-repo/semantics/published
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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