Andrew Huberman· PhD
and if we're looking for a theme about what the cerebellum does is that it is there to predict the immediate future it's trying to determine what's going to happen in the next second or two to best guide behavior and as you can imagine this kind of General computation could be applied very well you can see why it's important for you know motor systems and doing sports and you know if you're trying to hit a baseball and looking at what the pitcher is doing and trying to anticipate what the pitch is but it also comes up in a social realm if we're trying to read someone and predict what they are going to do is this person Friend or Foe which is one of the first things that we try to assess when meeting someone are they competent which is the second thing we try to assess uh when meeting something a lot of this depends upon predicative circuitry and uh it dep depends in part on the cerebellum and it seems to be at least partially impaired in people who sustain cerebellar damage so it seems as if interestingly the cerebellum started out for prediction related for motor control and through Evolution its basic computation has been applied to other non-motor behaviors