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What if the cerebellum is not just a motor structure but a universal learning machine wired to the entire frontal lobe? Neuroscientist Narender Ramnani explains how the anatomy of cortico-cerebellar loops forces us to rethink the cerebellum's role , from fine-tuning movements to supporting rule learning, cognitive error processing, and the transition from deliberate to habitual behavior. Subscribe for more from the Convergent Science Network podcast series. Narender Ramnani joins Paul Verschure and Tony Prescott at the BCBT summer school to present evidence that the cerebellum communicates not only with motor cortex but with diverse regions of the prefrontal and parietal cortex through closed anatomical loops. He traces this insight to work by Peter Strick and by Schmahmann and Pandya, which revealed that the cerebellum's connectivity is far broa ...