School of Psychology, Bond University, Robina, Australia.
Queensland Brain Institute, The University of Queensland, St Lucia, Australia.
Adv Exp Med Biol. 2022;1378:25-39. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-99550-8_3.
Clinical examinations and neuroimaging investigations have dramatically changed the prevailing view of human cerebellar function and suggest contributions beyond movement control. Of these new views, perhaps the most intriguing proposal is that the cerebellum plays a key role in regulating emotion. According to the dysmetria of thought theory, the cerebellum provides accuracy, consistency and appropriateness to cognitive and affective functions, as it does for movement-related operations. Despite the value of a universal theory on cerebellar function, it is also essential to consider its unique contributions to specific functional domains. This chapter aims to provide an accentuated account of the cerebellar role in emotion processing by separately evaluating its impact for sub-components of emotion processing. These include physiological responses that contribute to the subjective or "feeling" component of emotion, emotional expressions that serve essential social-communicative functions, and the cognitive appraisal process that determines the emotional significance of events and therefore affects the generation and modulation of emotions.
临床检查和神经影像学研究极大地改变了人们对人类小脑功能的普遍看法，并表明小脑在运动控制之外还具有其他作用。在这些新观点中，最引人入胜的提议或许是小脑在调节情绪方面发挥着关键作用。根据思维运动失调理论，小脑为认知和情感功能提供了准确性、一致性和适当性，就像它为与运动相关的操作提供准确性、一致性和适当性一样。尽管普遍的小脑功能理论具有价值，但考虑到小脑对特定功能领域的独特贡献也是至关重要的。本章旨在通过分别评估小脑对情绪处理子成分的影响，提供对小脑在情绪处理中作用的强调说明。这些子成分包括对情绪的主观或“感觉”成分有贡献的生理反应、对重要社会交际功能有贡献的情绪表达，以及决定事件情绪意义并因此影响情绪产生和调节的认知评价过程。
