By giving AI something like a cerebellum, researchers are showing that intelligence can be made not only more capable, but also more selective, economical and responsive.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Scientists discover new function of human brain’s cerebellum Scientists have found in a new study that the human brain’s ...

Most known for its role in movement, the cerebellum could compensate for flagging mental functions elsewhere in the brain.

When we say someone has a quick mind, it may be in part thanks to our expanded cerebellum that distinguishes human brains from those of macaque monkeys, for example. Sometimes referred to by its Latin ...

For the longest time the cerebellum, a dense, fist-size formation located at the base of the brain, never got much respect from neuroscientists. For about two centuries the scientific community ...

The cerebellum -- a part of the brain once recognized mainly for its role in coordinating movement -- underwent evolutionary changes that may have contributed to human culture, language and tool use, ...

This early 20th-century anatomical illustration of the human brain (from below) shows the left and right hemispheres of both the cerebellum and cerebrum. "Cerebellar" is the sister word to "cerebral" ...