Journal
CEREBELLUM
Volume 12, Issue 1, Pages 83-96Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12311-012-0398-y
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Neocerebellum; TMS; Priming; Prediction; Top-down processing
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- UK Medical Research Council
- National Science Council, Taiwan [100-2410-H-008-074-MY3]
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Current research in cerebellar cognitive and linguistic functions makes plausible the idea that the cerebellum is involved in processing temporally contiguous linguistic input. In order to assess this hypothesis, a lexical decision task was constructed to study the effects of cerebellar transcranial magnetic stimulation on semantic noun-to-verb priming based on association (e.g. 'soap-cleaning') or similarity (e.g. 'robbery-stealing'). The results demonstrated a selective increase in associative priming size after stimulation of a lateral cerebellar site. The findings are discussed in the contexts of a cerebellar role in linguistic expectancy generation and the corticocerebellar 'prefrontal' reciprocal loop.
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