Introduction
Lambon Ralph et al.
CORTEX
Although the current views highlight the role of the cerebral cortex in semantic representation and control (Lambon Ralph et al. Moreover, numerous studies have shown that the cerebellum is involved in executive control functions (Bellebaum and Daum Thus, it is currently unclear whether, or to which extent, the cerebellum contributes to specific lexical-semantic processes—(i) automatic retrieval, i.e. the process of a bottom-up activation of semantic representations triggered by environmental cues or spontaneous thought, and (ii) the retrieval’s executive control, i.e. a top-down manipulation of semantic processing employed if the outputs from automatic retrieval are inappropriate for the current task, respectively. We addressed this question by adopting the associative chain test (ACT, Marko et al. 