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Mind’s quality control center found in long-ignored brain area
- nabla9 8y agoThere are people without cerebellum: A new case of complete primary cerebellar agenesis: clinical and imaging findings in a living patient https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/138/6/e353/269537 https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/138/6/e353/269537 A Man's Incomplete Brain Reveals Cerebellum's Role In Thought And Emotion https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/03/16/392789753/a-man-s-incomplete-brain-reveals-cerebellum-s-role-in-thought-and-emotion https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/03/16/3927897...
- hw_penfold 8y agoThe subject of the NPR article was also kind enough to appear for an interview in this Youtube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5PyKSuPl2g https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5PyKSuPl2g
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- Nokinside 8y agoThere exists artificial neural network inspired by cerebellum called CMAC (Cerebellar Model Arithmetic Controller). It's used mainly in robotics. Fine people at https://zenrobotics.com https://zenrobotics.com did CMAC research before founding the company.
- soothsayergreg 8y agoDoes this really generalize?
- allreddy 8y agoPhaedrus would be happy to learn of this.
- docker_up 8y agoThis sounds exactly like our "growth" team.
- mettamage 8y agoI don’t fully understand the difference between the PFC and cerebellum then.