Research & Results

Bibliography of Key Research

Dyslexia and the Cerebellum

Ackermann, Hermann, et al. (1998) Does the Cerebellum Contribute to Cognitive Aspects of Speech Production? A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study in Humans. Neuroscience Letters 247,187-190

Black, JL et al (1984) Smooth Pursuit eye movements in Normal and Dyslexic Children. Perceptual and Motor Skills 59, 91-100

Decety, J., Sjoholm, H., Ryding, E., Stenberg, G., & Ingvar, D.H. (1990). The cerebellum participates in mental activity - tomographic measurements of regional cerebral blood flow. Brain Research, 535, 313-317

Fawcett, A.J. & Nicolson, R.I. (1992). Automatisation Deficits in Balance for Dyslexic Children. Perpetual and Motor Skills, 75, 507-529

Fawcett, A.J. and Nicolson, R.I. (1995c). Persistent deficits in motor skill for children with dyslexia. Journal of Motor Behaviour, 27, 235-241

Fawcett, A.J., Nicolson, R.I. and Dean, P. (1996). Imparied performance of children with dyslexia on a range of cerebellar tasks. Annals of Dyslexia, 46, 259-283

Fawcett, A.J. and Nicolson, R.I. (1999). Performance of dyslexic children on cognitive and cerebellar tests. Journal of Motor Behaviour, in press.

Frank, J. and Levinson, H.N. (1973). Dysmetric dyslexia an dyspraxia: hypothesis and study. Journal of American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 12, 690-701

Huh, Jinyoung, et al (1998) Development of Bilateral Motor Control in Children with Development Co-ordination Disorders Developmental Medicine and Child Neurology 40, 474-484

Levinson, H.N. (1990). The diagnostic value of cerebellar-vestibular in detecting learning disabilities, dyslexia and attention deficit disorder. Perceptual and Motor Skills, 71, 67-82

Mathiak, Klaus, et al.(2002) Cerebellum and Speech Perception: A functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 14, 902-912

Moretti, Rita, et al. (2002) Peculiar Aspects of Reading and Writing Performances in patients with Olivoponocerebellar Atrophy. Perceptual and Motor Skills 94, 677-694

Nicolson, R.I. and Fawcett, A.J. (1990). Automaticity: A new framework for dyslexia research. Cognition, 35, 159-182

Nicolson, R.I. and Fawcett, A.J. (1994b). Comparison on deficits in cognitive and motor skills among children with dyslexia. Annals of Dyslexia, 44, 147-164

Nicolson, R.I. and Fawcett, A.J. (1995). Dyslexia is more than a phonological disability. Dyslexia: An international journal of research and practice, 1, 19-37

Riva, Daria, et al. Late Effects of Unilateral Brain Lesions Sustained before and after age one.(1985) Neuropsycholgia 24, 423-428

Riva, Daria, et al (1989) Impairment of Neuro Psychological Functions in Children with Medulloblastomas and Astrocytomas in the Posteria Fossa(1989) Childs Nervous System 5, 107-110

Stewart, H., et al (1999) Evidence for a Deficit in Procedural Learning in Children and Adolescents with Autism: Implications for Cerebellar Contribution. Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society 6, 752-759

Thach, W.T. (1996). On the specific role of the cerebellum, in motor learning and cognition: Cues from PET activation and lesion studies in man. Brain and Behavioural Sciences

Language

Fiez, J.A. and Raichle, M.E. (1997). Linguistic Processing. International Review of Neurobiology, Vol.41, 233-25

Fulbright, R.K., Jenner, W.R., Mencl, W.E., Pugh, K.R., Shaywitz, B.A., Shaywitz, S.E., Frost, S.J., Skudlarski, P., Constable, R.T., Lacadie, C.M., Marchione, K.E. and Gore, J.C. (November/December 1999). The cerebellum's role in reading: A functional MR imaging study. AJNR Am J Neuroradiol 20:1925-1930

Gasparini, M., Dipiero, V., Ciccarelli O (1999). Linguistic impairment after right cerebellar stoke - A case report. European Journal of Neurology, Vol 6, 353-356

Leggio, M.G., Solida, A., Silveri, M.C., Gainotti, G., and Molinari, M. (1995). Verbal fluency impairments in patients with cerebellar lesions. Soc. Neurosci. Abstracts 21, 917

Leiner, H.C., Leiner, A.L., & Dow, R.S. (1989). Reappraising the Cerebellum: what does the hindbrain contribute to the forebrain? Behavioural Neuroscience, 103, 998-1008

Leiner, H.C., Leiner, A.L., & Dow, R.S. (1993). Cognitive and language functions of the human cerebellum. Trends in Neuroscience, 16 444-447

Riva, D. (2000). The cerebellar contribution to language and sequential functions: evidence from a child with cerebellitis. Cortex 1998;34 279-87. Journal of Neurolinguistics 13, 215-225

Silveri, M.C., Leggio, M.G. & Molinari, M. (1994). The cerebellum contributes to linguistic production: A case of agrammatic speech following a right cerebellar lesion. Neurology, 44, 2047-2050

Memory

Apollonio, I.M., Grafman, J., Schwartz, M.S., Massaquoi, S., and Hallett, M. (1993). Memory in patients with cerebellar degeneration. Neurology 43, 1536-1544

Berquin, PC et al (1998) Cerebellum in Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder. Neurology 50, 1087-1093

Desmond, J.E., Gabrieli, J.D.E., Ginier, B.I., Demb, J.B., Wagner, A.D., Enzmann, D.R., and Glover, G.H. (1995) A functional MRI (fMRI) study of cerebellum during motor and working memory tasks. Soc. Neurosci. Abst. 21 1210

Natacha A et al ERP Evidence for a shifting Attention Deficit in Patients with Damage to the Cerebellum. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience 6, 388-399

Attention Focusing

Akshoomoff, N.A., and Courchesne, E. (1994). ERP evidence for a shifting attention deficit in patients with damage to the cerebellum. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 6, 388-389

Allen, G., Courchesne, E., Buxton, R.B., and Wong, E.C. (1996). Dissociation of attention and motor operations in the cerebellum. In "Proceedings of the Third Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Neuroscience Society" p.28

Allen, G., Buxton, R.G., Wong, E.C., and Courchesne, E. (1997). Attentional activation of the cerebellum independent of motor involvement. Science 275, 1940-1943

Anderson, B. (1994). The volume of the cerebellum molecular layer predicts attention to novelty in rats. Brain Res. 641, 160-162

Courchesne, E., Townsend, J., Askhoomoff, N.A., Saitoh, O., Yeung-Courchesne, R., Lincoln, A., James, H., Haas, R.H., Schreibman, L., and Lau, L. (1994c). Impairment in shifting attention in autistic and cerebellar patients. Behav. Neurosci, 108, 848-865

Courchesne, E., Townsend, J., Askhoomoff, N.A., Yeung-Courchesne, R., Press, G.A., Murakami, J.W., Lincoln, A.J., James, H.E., Saitoh, O., Egass, B., Haas, R.H., and Schreibman, L. (1994d). A new finding: Impairment in shifting attention in autistic and cerebellar patients. In "Atypical Cognitive Deficits in Developmental Disorders: Implications for Brian Function" (S.H. Broman and J. Grafman, eds.) pp.101-137, Lawrence Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ

Helmuth, L.L., and Ivry, R.B. (1994). Cognitive deficits following cerebellar lesions in humans: Studies of attention and verbal fluency. Soc. Neurosci. Abstr. 20, 412.12

Lee, T.H., and Hu, X. (1996). Involvement of the cerebellum in intramodality attention shifting. Neuroimage 3, 246

Townsend, J., Courchesne, E., and Egaas, B. (1996a). Slowed orienting of covert visual spatial attention in autism: Specific deficits associated with cerebellar and parietal abnormalities (Dev. Pschopathol. 8, 563-584.

Townsend, J., Singer-Harris, N.S., and Courchesne, E. (1996b). Visual attention abnormalities in autism: Delayed orienting to location. J. Int. Neuropsychol. Soc. 2, 541-550.

Watson, P.J. (1978). Nonmotor functions of the cerebellum. Psychol. Bull. 85, 944-967

Emotional Control

Berman, A.J., Berman, D., and Prescott, J.W. (1978). The effect of cerebellar lesions on emotional behaviour in the rhesus monkey. In "The Cerebellum, Epilepsy and Behaviour" (I.S. Cooper, M. Riklan, and R.S. Snider, eds.), pp.277-284. Plenum Press. New York.

Chembers, W.W. (1947). Electrical stimulation of the interior of the cerebellum in the cat. Am.J. Anat. 80, 55-94.

Heath, R.G. (1972a). Physiologic basis of emotional expression: Evoked potential and mirror focus studies in rhesus monkeys. Bio. Psychiat. 5, 15-31.

Peters, M. (1969). "A Cerebellar Role in Behaviour." Ph.D. thesis, University of Western Ontario.

Peters, M., and Monjan, A.A. (1971). Behaviour after cerebellar lesions in cats and monkeys. Physiol. Behav. 6, 205-206.

Learning Cognitive Skills

Akshoomoff, N. A., and Courchesne, E. (1992). A new role for the cerebellum in cognitive operations, Behav. Neurosci, vol 106, 731-738

Daum, I. and Ackermann, H. (1997). Neuropsychological abnormalities in cerebellar syndromes - fact or fiction? International Review of Neurobiology, Vol. 41, 455-471

Doyon, J. (1997). Skill learning. International Review of Neurobiology, Vol. 41, 273-294

Fiez, J. A., Petersen, S. E., Cheney, M. K. and Raichle, M. E. (1992). Impaired nonmotor learning and error detection associated with cerebellar damage: A single-case study. Brain 1992 vol 115, 155-178

Giorgi, C. (2000). The cerebellum contributes to higher function during development evidence from a series of children surgically treated for posterior fossa tumours. Brain 2000 vol 123, 1051-61

Graftman, J., Litvan, I., Massaquoi S., Stewart, M., Sirigu, A., and Hallet, M. (1992). Cognitive planning deficit in patients with cerebellar atrophy. Neurology 1992 vol 42, 1493-1496

Hallett, M. and Grafman, J. Executive function and motor skill learning. International Review of Neurobiology, Vol. 41, 297-323

Highstein, Stephen, et al (1968) Responses of the Cerebellar Vermis to Binaural Auditory Stimulation. Brain Research 10, 470-473

Kim, S. G., Ugurbil, K., and Stick, P. L. (1994). Activation of a cerebellar output nucleus during cognitive processing. Science vol 265, 949-951

Lalonde, R & Botel-Marquard, T (2000). Neuropsychological deficits of patients with cronic or acute cerebellar lesions. Journal of Neurolinguistics 2000 vol 13, 117-28

Levisohn, L., Cronin-Golomba A., and Schmahmann, J D (2000). Neuropsychological consequences of cerebellar tumour resection in children: cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome in a pediatric population. Brain 123 (Pt 5), 1041-50.

Marien, Peter, et al (2001) The Lateralised Linguistic Cerebellum: A review and a New Hypothesis. Brain and Language 79, 580-600

Middleton, F.A. and Strick, P.L. Cerebellar output channels. International Review of Neurobiology, Vol. 41, 61-82

Middleton, F.A. and Strick, P. L. (1994). Anatomical evidence for cerebellar and basal ganglia involvement in higher cognitive function. Science vol 266, 458-461

Nawrot, Mark, et al (1994) Motion Perception Deficits from Midline Cerebellar Lesions in Human. Vision Research 35, 723-731

Neau J-Ph et al (2002) Neuropsychological Disturbances in Cerebellar Infarcts. Acta. Neurol. Scand. 102, 363-370

Parsons, L.M. and Fox, P.T. (1997). Sensory and cognitive functions. International Review of Neurobiology, Vol. 41, 255-271

Riva D, Pantaleoni C, Milani N, et al. Impairment in neuropsychological functions in children with medulloblastomas and astrocitomas of the posterior fossa. Child's Nervous System 1989;5:107-10

Sasaki, K., Jinnai, K., Gemba, H., Hashimoto, S., and Mizuno, N. (1979). Projection of the cerebellar dentate nucleus onto the frontal association cortex in monkeys. Exp. Brain Res. Vol 37, 193-198

Schmahmann, J. D. (1991). An emerging concept: The cerebellar contribution to higher function. Arch. Neurol vol 48, 1178-1187

Schmahmann, J. D. (1996). From movement to thought: Anatomic substrates of the cerebellar contribution to congnitive processing. Hum. Brain Mapp. Vol 4, 174-198.

Schmahmann, J.D. (1997). Rediscovery of an early concept. International Review of Neurobiology, Vol. 41 3 - 27

Schmahmann, J., and Pandya, D. N. (1995). Prefrontal cortex projections to the basilar pons in rhesus monkey: Implications for the cerebellar contribution to higher function. J. Comp. Neurol. Vol 289, 53-73

Schmahmann, J.D. and Sherman, J.C. (1997). Cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome. International Review of Neurobiology, Vol. 41, 433-440.

Schmahmann, J.D. and Pandya, D.N. (1997). The cerebrocerebellar system. International Review of Neurobiology, Vol. 41, 31-60

Sherman, J. (1998). The cerebellar cognitive affective syndrome. Brain 1998 vol 121, 561-79

Stine, Susan B., et al (1998) Learning Problems in Neurofibromatosis Patients. Clinical Orthopaedics and Related Research 245, 42-49

Thach, W. T. (1997). On the specific role of the cerebellum in motor learning and cognition: Clues from PET activation and lesion studies in man. Behav, Brain Sci., in press.

Thompson, R.F., Bao, S., Chen, L., Cirpriano, B.D., Grethe, J.S., Kim, J.J., Thompson, J.K., Tracy, J.A., Weninger, M.S. and Krupa, D.J (1997). Associative Learning. International Review of Neurobiology, Vol. 41, 151-189

Timmann, D., et al (1996) Visuomotor Learning in Cerebellar Patients. Behavioural Brain Research 81, 99-113