AUTHOR=Cervetto Sabrina , Abrevaya Sofía , Martorell Caro Miguel , Kozono Giselle , Muñoz Edinson , Ferrari Jesica , Sedeño Lucas , Ibáñez Agustín , García Adolfo M. TITLE=Action Semantics at the Bottom of the Brain: Insights From Dysplastic Cerebellar Gangliocytoma JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=9 YEAR=2018 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01194 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01194 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=
Recent embodied cognition research shows that access to action verbs in shallow-processing tasks becomes selectively compromised upon atrophy of the cerebellum, a critical motor region. Here we assessed whether cerebellar damage also disturbs explicit semantic processing of action pictures and its integration with ongoing motor responses. We evaluated a cognitively preserved 33-year-old man with severe dysplastic cerebellar gangliocytoma (Lhermitte-Duclos disease), encompassing most of the right cerebellum and the posterior part of the left cerebellum. The patient and eight healthy controls completed two semantic association tasks (involving pictures of objects and actions, respectively) that required motor responses. Accuracy results via Crawford’s modified