TMS Over the Cerebellum Interferes with Short-term Memory of Visual Sequences

Abstract Growing evidence suggests that the cerebellum is not only involved in motor functions, but it significantly contributes to sensory and cognitive processing as well. In particular, it has been hypothesized that the cerebellum identifies recurrent serial events and recognizes their violations...

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Autores principales:	C. Ferrari, Z. Cattaneo, V. Oldrati, L. Casiraghi, F. Castelli, E. D’Angelo, T. Vecchi
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Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2018
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c18c33d13b9e4bc38205e8c618579a4b2021-12-02T15:07:49ZTMS Over the Cerebellum Interferes with Short-term Memory of Visual Sequences10.1038/s41598-018-25151-y2045-2322https://doaj.org/article/c18c33d13b9e4bc38205e8c618579a4b2018-04-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-25151-yhttps://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Growing evidence suggests that the cerebellum is not only involved in motor functions, but it significantly contributes to sensory and cognitive processing as well. In particular, it has been hypothesized that the cerebellum identifies recurrent serial events and recognizes their violations. Here we used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to shed light on the role of the cerebellum in short-term memory of visual sequences. In two experiments, we found that TMS over the right cerebellar hemisphere impaired participants’ ability to recognize the correct order of appearance of geometrical stimuli varying in shape and/or size. In turn, cerebellar TMS did not affect recognition of highly familiar short sequences of letters or numbers. Overall, our data suggest that the cerebellum is involved in memorizing the order in which (concatenated) stimuli appear, this process being important for sequence learning.C. FerrariZ. CattaneoV. OldratiL. CasiraghiF. CastelliE. D’AngeloT. VecchiNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2018)
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spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q C. Ferrari Z. Cattaneo V. Oldrati L. Casiraghi F. Castelli E. D’Angelo T. Vecchi TMS Over the Cerebellum Interferes with Short-term Memory of Visual Sequences
description	Abstract Growing evidence suggests that the cerebellum is not only involved in motor functions, but it significantly contributes to sensory and cognitive processing as well. In particular, it has been hypothesized that the cerebellum identifies recurrent serial events and recognizes their violations. Here we used transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to shed light on the role of the cerebellum in short-term memory of visual sequences. In two experiments, we found that TMS over the right cerebellar hemisphere impaired participants’ ability to recognize the correct order of appearance of geometrical stimuli varying in shape and/or size. In turn, cerebellar TMS did not affect recognition of highly familiar short sequences of letters or numbers. Overall, our data suggest that the cerebellum is involved in memorizing the order in which (concatenated) stimuli appear, this process being important for sequence learning.
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author	C. Ferrari Z. Cattaneo V. Oldrati L. Casiraghi F. Castelli E. D’Angelo T. Vecchi
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title	TMS Over the Cerebellum Interferes with Short-term Memory of Visual Sequences
title_short	TMS Over the Cerebellum Interferes with Short-term Memory of Visual Sequences
title_full	TMS Over the Cerebellum Interferes with Short-term Memory of Visual Sequences
title_fullStr	TMS Over the Cerebellum Interferes with Short-term Memory of Visual Sequences
title_full_unstemmed	TMS Over the Cerebellum Interferes with Short-term Memory of Visual Sequences
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publisher	Nature Portfolio
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url	https://doaj.org/article/c18c33d13b9e4bc38205e8c618579a4b
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TMS Over the Cerebellum Interferes with Short-term Memory of Visual Sequences

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