Executive function and motor skill learning.

Publisher Summary Evidence from behavioral studies of patients with cerebellar atrophy implies that the cerebellum plays a role in visuomotor learning and adaptation, planning, strategic thinking, time processing, and associative learning. Evidence from studies using functional neuroimaging supports this implication and substantiates the hypothesis that the cerebellum acts in concert with other structures as part of a frontal subcortical system devoted to the storage and organization of timed sequential behaviors. The role of the cerebellum in timed sequential cognitive processing may be analogous to its role in motor processing and suggests a mechanism by which cognitive events become sequenced and temporally labeled. Motor learning is a complex phenomenon with many components. Depending on the particular task, different anatomical structures are involved. The cerebellum takes the principal part in adaptation learning. The role of the cerebellum in timed sequential cognitive processing is analogous to its role in motor processing and suggests a mechanism by which cognitive events become sequenced and temporally labeled.

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