Cerebellum
in sentence
12 examples of Cerebellum in a sentence
There's the cerebellum; that's keeping you upright right now.
This looks to me like what happens when the
cerebellum
is damaged.
The
cerebellum'
s a little cauliflower-shaped area in the back of your head, but don't let its size fool you.
My money's on the
cerebellum.
And we now know that procedural memory relies more on the basal ganglia and cerebellum, structures that were intact in H.M.'s brain.
And these input signals coming from descending modulation from higher parts of the brain, like the motor cortex, the cerebellum, the basal ganglia, will all modulate activity of the spinal cord while we do locomotion.
You can see towards the right that kind of pretty structure is the
cerebellum
that controls various types of motor movement, and then below that, there is the brainstem.
There is about 20 regions of the brain that have been modeled, simulated and tested: the auditory cortex, regions of the visual cortex; cerebellum, where we do our skill formation; slices of the cerebral cortex, where we do our rational thinking.
Just very simply, the three parts of the brain: the frontal lobe, where you focus your attention and concentration; you have the temporal lobe, where you form images and keep memories; and the posterior part of your brain, which contains the cerebellum, which controls motion; and the brain stem, where you have your basic maintenance functions, like heartbeat and respiration.
Because the brain of a person trying to tickle herself anticipates the sensations that will be caused by her fingers – a process performed within the
cerebellum
– the sensation no longer tickles.
You can, however, succeed in tickling yourself through an intermediary – a machine, for instance, that translates the movements of your fingers into sensations on the skin by a method indirect enough for the
cerebellum
to be unable to anticipate them.
Although the conscious part of your brain knows that the tickling sensation comes from you and isn’t “really” unexpected, the
cerebellum
doesn’t get it, and the tickling works.
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