Amanda LeBel
@amandalebel.bsky.social
Ph.D candidate at UC Berkeley studying language and the cerebellum using fMRI.
www.amandalebel.com
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It's a super common misconception due to how much of cerebellum research is focused motor. Another great summary of all of the things the cerebellum is involved in is this paper by maedbh king. It really seems like the cerebellar is involved in nearly all tasks www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Functional boundaries in the human cerebellum revealed by a multi-domain task battery - Nature Neuro...
Using a large task battery spanning motor, cognitive, social and affective domains, this functional MRI (fMRI) study provides a comprehensive functional map of the human cerebellum, along with a compa...
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September 14, 2023 at 10:46 PM
It's a super common misconception due to how much of cerebellum research is focused motor. Another great summary of all of the things the cerebellum is involved in is this paper by maedbh king. It really seems like the cerebellar is involved in nearly all tasks www.nature.com/articles/s41...
I am really excited in how functional cerebellar work can integrate some of the current research in variability in the cerebellar cellular circuit to come up with better models on what exactly the cerebellum is doing in these cognitive tasks like language.
September 14, 2023 at 6:50 PM
I am really excited in how functional cerebellar work can integrate some of the current research in variability in the cerebellar cellular circuit to come up with better models on what exactly the cerebellum is doing in these cognitive tasks like language.
But! there is still a ton of open questions like is there low level auditory processing? or what computation could the cerebellum be doing? So I want to shout out my favorite recent paper showing that the cerebellar circuit is not nearly as uniform as previously thought doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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September 14, 2023 at 6:49 PM
But! there is still a ton of open questions like is there low level auditory processing? or what computation could the cerebellum be doing? So I want to shout out my favorite recent paper showing that the cerebellar circuit is not nearly as uniform as previously thought doi.org/10.1126/scie...
AND many communication disorders such as autism and dyslexia both show consistent cerebellar morphological changes which are predictive of language delays and outcomes. All this suggesting that the cerebellum is likely necessary for proper language function.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
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Cerebellar gray matter differentiates children with early language delay in autism
Early language delay (ELD) is one of the earliest indicators of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and predicts later cognitive and behavioral outcomes. We aimed to determine the neural correlates of EL....
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
September 14, 2023 at 6:47 PM
AND many communication disorders such as autism and dyslexia both show consistent cerebellar morphological changes which are predictive of language delays and outcomes. All this suggesting that the cerebellum is likely necessary for proper language function.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
This result is also supported by connectivity models which show that there is strong connectivity between the cognitive cerebellum and langauge cortical areas. For example in this recent dMRI paper by Katie Jobson.
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Language and the Cerebellum: Structural Connectivity to the Eloquent Brain
Abstract. Neurobiological models of receptive language have focused on the left-hemisphere perisylvian cortex with the assumption that the cerebellum supports peri-linguistic cognitive processes such ...
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September 14, 2023 at 6:44 PM
This result is also supported by connectivity models which show that there is strong connectivity between the cognitive cerebellum and langauge cortical areas. For example in this recent dMRI paper by Katie Jobson.
t.co/eYbvif4asv
t.co/eYbvif4asv
Recent MRI research (including my own) has shown that as you move up the language hierarchy from low-level sensory to high level semantics and pragmatics the cerebellum becomes *more* involved
www.jneurosci.org/content/41/5...
www.jneurosci.org/content/41/5...
Voxelwise Encoding Models Show That Cerebellar Language Representations Are Highly Conceptual
There is a growing body of research demonstrating that the cerebellum is involved in language understanding. Early theories assumed that the cerebellum is involved in low-level language processing. Ho...
www.jneurosci.org
September 14, 2023 at 6:43 PM
Recent MRI research (including my own) has shown that as you move up the language hierarchy from low-level sensory to high level semantics and pragmatics the cerebellum becomes *more* involved
www.jneurosci.org/content/41/5...
www.jneurosci.org/content/41/5...
Lastly lastly, link to the actual dataset itself can be found here: openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...
OpenNeuro
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August 23, 2023 at 4:30 PM
Lastly lastly, link to the actual dataset itself can be found here: openneuro.org/datasets/ds0...
Lastly, since working with naturalistic stimuli can be challenging we have a brief tutorial on best practices in this paper and all of the basic code available here:
github.com/HuthLab/deep...
github.com/HuthLab/deep...
GitHub - HuthLab/deep-fMRI-dataset: Code accompanying data release of natural language listening fMR...
Code accompanying data release of natural language listening fMRI data (LeBel et al.) - GitHub - HuthLab/deep-fMRI-dataset: Code accompanying data release of natural language listening fMRI data (L...
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August 23, 2023 at 4:29 PM
Lastly, since working with naturalistic stimuli can be challenging we have a brief tutorial on best practices in this paper and all of the basic code available here:
github.com/HuthLab/deep...
github.com/HuthLab/deep...
This extra data includes the data used for the recent decoding paper you might have seen
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Also for people interested in working with more naturalistic language stimuli, we have the full stimulus set of over 15 hours of auditory stimulus with full transcripts.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Also for people interested in working with more naturalistic language stimuli, we have the full stimulus set of over 15 hours of auditory stimulus with full transcripts.
Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings - Nature Neuroscie...
Tang et al. show that continuous language can be decoded from functional MRI recordings to recover the meaning of perceived and imagined speech stimuli and silent videos and that this language decodin...
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August 23, 2023 at 4:28 PM
This extra data includes the data used for the recent decoding paper you might have seen
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Also for people interested in working with more naturalistic language stimuli, we have the full stimulus set of over 15 hours of auditory stimulus with full transcripts.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Also for people interested in working with more naturalistic language stimuli, we have the full stimulus set of over 15 hours of auditory stimulus with full transcripts.