Seminar by Philippe Isope

Friday 30 January 2026, at 11:00, INT, Henri Gastaut meeting room

Philippe Isope (Institut des Neurosciences Cellulaires et Intégratives, Université de Strasbourg) invited by Jean-Marc Goaillard

The Cerebellum and Temporal Processing

Abstract: The brain constantly generates predictions to guide actions and updates them when predictions fail. In sensorimotor control, the cerebellum helps anticipate sensory consequences, allowing behavior to bypass slow feedback delays. Beyond motor functions, however, its contribution to timing and cognition remains less well understood. Disrupted cerebello–prefrontal communication may impair temporal processing, as suggested in schizophrenia. Timing and sequencing are essential for thought, speech, and coordinated behavior. In this seminar, I will present a series of experiments performed both in vitro and in vivo that shed light on how the cerebellum encodes temporal information and communicates it to the rest of the brain, and I will propose hypotheses on the cerebellum’s role in temporal processing.