CEREBELLUM AND CEREBRUM IN ADAPTIVE-CONTROL AND COGNITION - A REVIEW

There have been various descriptions of cerebellar function in terms o f adaptive control. However, a number of recent publications have indi cated that the cerebellum is involved in a range of cognitive processe s including pure cognitive activity. This review paper relates the con cept of cerebellar adaptive control to cerebellar cognition, and explo res the relative roles of the cerebrum and cerebellum by considering t he issue of representation and processing of information in a systemat ic manner. It is suggested that the cerebellar cortex and cerebral cor tex facilitate two fundamentally-different types of information repres entation and processing which are complementary and which should be ab le to reciprocally evaluate and correct each other, thereby providing the basis for a self-correcting adaptive control system.