The function of the cerebellum in cognition, affect and consciousness: Empirical support for the embodied mind

Schmahmann, Jeremy D.; Anderson, Carl M.; Newton, Natika; Ellis, Ralph D.

doi:10.1075/ce.2.2.06sch

Article published In: Consciousness & Emotion
Vol. 2:2 (2001) ► pp.273–309

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The function of the cerebellum in cognition, affect and consciousness

Empirical support for the embodied mind

Jeremy D. Schmahmann | M. D., Harvard Medical School, Mass. General Hospital

Carl M. Anderson | Harvard Medical School, McLean Hospital

Natika Newton | Editor of Consciousness & Emotion

Ralph D. Ellis | Editor of Consciousness & Emotion

Published online: 27 May 2002

https://doi.org/10.1075/ce.2.2.06sch

Editors’ note:þThese four interrelated discussions of the role of the cerebellum in coordinating emotional and higher cognitive functions developed out of a workshop presented by the four authors for the 2000 Conference of the Cognitive Science Society at the University of Pennsylvania. The four interrelated discussions explore the implications of the recent explosion of cerebellum research suggesting an expanded cerebellar role in higher cognitive functions as well as in the coordination of emotional functions with learning, logical thinking, perceptual consciousness, and action planning

Keywords: cerebellum, emotion, action, dysmetria of thought, embodied mind, cerebellar vermis, schizophrenia, autism, consciousness

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