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Playing tennis with the cerebellum

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A functional imaging study in which subjects tracked different targets with eye movements and a joystick provides evidence that the cerebellum is involved in eye–hand coordination. The data suggest that internal models used for motor control may also be involved in cognition.

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Iacoboni, M. Playing tennis with the cerebellum. Nat Neurosci 4, 555–556 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1038/88365

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