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The Anterior Cingulate Cortex

In this episode, we discussed a region in the brain known as the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), which is important for several cognitive functions including emotional regulation, attention allocation, and predictive coding.


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The ACC is located in the front part of the brain, surrounding the corpus callosum from https://www.flintrehab.com/anterior-cingulate-cortex-damage/












This episode was largely based on a recently released preprint paper:


“Prediction error signals in ACC guide task-switching” (Cole et al., 2022) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.11.27.518096v1.full.pdf


The ACC is involved in anxiety:

The ACC is involved in high-order processes such as making predictions and decisions and judging the value of actions:


The ACC contributes to generating an internal model of the world:



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