The cerebellum is a major structure of your hindbrain responsible for a wide range of functions, including coordinating your movements. It is important in processing some types of memory.

Reversible cerebellar disruption in non-human primates reveals an acute muscle torque deficit and an adaptive slowing strategy to manage limb dynamics, underscoring distinct primary, and compensatory ...

This work also showed that in most of the cerebellum, neural activity was in sync with that of regions of the cerebral cortex responsible for these nonmotor functions. Together, these findings ...

Two recent studies have illuminated various ways that the "non-thinking" cerebellum (Latin for "little brain") may be involved in complex cerebral thinking.

"Our results also align with evidence suggesting that the socio-cognitive deficits of autism spectrum disorder are associated ...

My late father, Richard Bergland, M.D. (1932-2007) published The Fabric of Mind in 1986. For the book cover, dad insisted on a sagittal plane view; he liked how this vantage point elucidates major ...

Understanding others’ beliefs—especially false ones—is key to human communication and begins to develop between ages three and five.

Those who are blessed with long lives will eventually experience a decline in cognitive functions, and working memory is ...