Amanda LeBel
@AmandaLeBel3
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PhD candidate @UCBerkeleyNeuro @ivrylab and @gallantlab studying language in the cerebellum // @NSF GRFP // Formerly in the @HuthLab
Berkeley, CA
Joined June 2018
This work is now officially out in @SfNJournals where we show that the language representations in the cerebellum seem to be exclusively conceptual semantic information.
jneurosci.org
There is a growing body of research demonstrating that the cerebellum is involved in language understanding. Early theories assumed that the cerebellum is involved in low-level language processing....
Excited to share this work from @AmandaLeBel3 on a detailed breakdown of language representations in the cerebellum! Take-away 1: it represents language! But data are consistent with cerebellum ONLY representing the HIGHEST-LEVEL, MOST CONCEPTUAL aspects of language.
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RT @aniladmello: Check out our paper ‘Ignoring the cerebellum is hindering progress in neuroscience’ in @TrendsCognSci! With @BangjieWang a….
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RT @aniladmello: The best part of collaborations is hosting amazing scientists like @AmandaLeBel3 and having an excuse to get a tex-mex lab….
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RT @SI_plasticity: Human neurons are incredibly complex and Purkinje cells are, by far, the largest in our brain. We give a detailed charac….
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I don’t think I’ve ever stayed up til 2 am multiple nights in a row to just excitedly discuss all of the interesting perspectives and opinions from a conference before. Thanks so much to all of the organizers!.
Day 1 of @jneurolang's #NoL_Workshop on varying perspectives of the brain's "language network" (or lack thereof?). Thanks to @mcgovernmit for hosting, @mitpress for the swag, organizers @stevenlsmall @thelablab @ev_fedorenko, and speakers & attendees for lively discussion!
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RT @cathychen23: Do brain representations of language depend on whether the inputs are pixels or sounds?. Our @CommsBio paper studies this….
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RT @jerryptang: I’ll be presenting this work at the #NeurIPS2023 5pm poster session on Wednesday — come by to chat about the relationship b….
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RT @jortegaNY: Four days left to donate! All funds raised will provide research opportunities for underrepresented students to get one on m….
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RT @c_mmerick: If you are interested in neuroscience or clinical applications of non-invasive brain stimulation you should come join us!! 🧠.
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If JT’s mentorship of undergraduate students and his peers is indicative of his potential as a PI, then his future graduate students are going to be really lucky to work with him.
I am recruiting PhD students & postdocs at @CarnegieMellon as an assistant professor in #Psychology for fall 2024! . Looking for folks passionate about motor learning - the way we acquire, adapt, and retain skilled movements.
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RT @aniladmello: Want to know more about the cerebellum’s involvement in language? 🧐 🧠Check out our new review, written with the incredible….
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And thanks again to @aniladmello for inviting me to help write this and hopefully heres to more collaborations figuring out what exactly the cerebellum is doing.
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I am really excited in how functional cerebellar work can integrate some of the current research on variability in the cerebellar cellular circuit to come up with better models on what exactly the cerebellum is doing in these cognitive tasks like language.
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so I want to also shout out my favorite recent cerebellar paper from @SI_plasticity showing that the cerebellar circuit is not nearly as uniform as previously thought particularly in humans
science.org
Multibranched dendrites are common in humans and in a mouse Purkinje cell population drive diverse input patterns and signal complexity.
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All this suggesting that the cerebellum is likely active and necessary for proper language function. But! there are still a ton of open questions like what about low level auditory processing? or what computation could the cerebellum be doing?.
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AND many communication disorders such as autism and dyslexia both show consistent cerebellar morphological changes and these changes are predictive of language delays and outcomes
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
Early language delay (ELD) is one of the earliest indicators of autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and predicts later cognitive and behavioral outcomes. We aimed to determine the neural correlates of...
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This result is also supported by connectivity models which show that there is a strong connectivity between the cognitive cerebellum and language cortical areas. For example in this recent dMRI paper by @KatieJobson1
direct.mit.edu
Abstract. Neurobiological models of receptive language have focused on the left-hemisphere perisylvian cortex with the assumption that the cerebellum supports peri-linguistic cognitive processes such...
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Recent MRI research (including my own) has shown that as you move up the language hierarchy from low-level sensory to high level semantic and pragmatics the cerebellum becomes *more* involved.
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I am super excited to share my new review paper cowritten with the great @aniladmello where we cover all the recent work on the potential role of the cerebellum in language processing (hint think semantics)
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RT @cathychen23: Hi all prospective grad students! Our Equal Access to Application Assistance (EAAA) program for @Berkeley_EECS is now acce….
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Hello! The Equal Access to Application Assistance Program (https://sites.google.com/berkeley.edu/eaaa/home) aims to ensure that all applicants to higher degree programs (MS/PhD) at UC Berkeley's...
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