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Riva and Georgi (2000), for example, demonstrated that children with right hemisphere cerebellum lesions had difficulty processing language and had poor auditory memory, whereas those with left hemisphere cerebellar lesions had visual spatial memory problems. Individuals with lesions in the middle region of the vermis showed added behavioral dysfunction, including autistic-like symptoms and postsurgical mutism.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The cerebellum, meaning \u201clittle brain,\u201d lies beneath the cerebral cortex and is attached to the brain stem. The cerebellum consists of three lobes, the middle (or vermis) and the outer (right and left) lobes. 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