They showed that, by stimulating the brain region with noninvasive, focused, low-intensity ultrasound, the anterior cingulate cortex was of “causal importance” to this process.

Double Dissociation of Stimulus-Value and Action-Value Learning in Humans with Orbitofrontal or Anterior Cingulate Cortex Damage. Journal of Neuroscience , 2011; 31 (42): 15048 DOI: 10.1523 ...

What drives addicts to repeatedly choose drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, overeating, gambling or kleptomania, despite the risks involved? Neuroscientists at the University of California, Berkeley ...

A study published in Nature Communications reports that a key function of the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is to help the brain adapt to performing new tasks. When the researchers changed the rules ...

The dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC), orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), ventrolateral and ventromedial prefrontal cortex (vlPFC, vmPFC) and their connections with the basal ganglia play a central ...

Scientists have now found that a brain structure called the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) is involved in using mental models to learn. ... When the team analyzed the results, about 230,000 ...