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Investigate the cerebellum's role in linguistic processing and identify specific areas involved.

April 19, 2026Open Access

On the search for language in the cerebellum

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Investigate the cerebellum's role in linguistic processing and identify specific areas involved.
Extensive investigation of cerebellar function
Comparison of language processing with cognitive and social domains
Analysis of posterior Crus I/II for language specialization
Identified a language-specialized area in posterior Crus I/II
Demonstrated involvement of the cerebellum in language processing at word and sentence levels
Highlighted cerebellum's contributions in relation to the neocortical language network.

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Casto et al.1 carried out an extensive investigation demonstrating the involvement of the cerebellum in linguistic processing and identified a language-specialized area located mainly in posterior Crus I/II. The study offers an analysis of the cerebellum's contribution to language at the level of words and sentences, in comparison with numerous other cognitive and social domains and in relation to the neocortical language network.

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Frank Van Overwalle

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Neuron

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Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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