Editing Anterior cingulate cortex (section)

{{Short description|Brain region}}
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{{Infobox brain
| Name            = Anterior cingulate cortex
| Latin           = cortex cingularis anterior
| Image           = Gray727 anterior cingulate cortex.png
| Caption         = Medial surface of left cerebral hemisphere, with anterior cingulate highlighted
| Image2          = Gray727-Brodman.png
| Caption2        = Medial surface of right hemisphere, with Brodmann's areas numbered
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}}

In the [[human brain]], the '''anterior cingulate cortex''' ('''ACC''') is the frontal part of the [[cingulate cortex]] that resembles a "collar" surrounding the frontal part of the [[corpus callosum]]. It consists of [[Brodmann area]]s [[Brodmann area 24|24]], [[Brodmann area 32|32]], and [[Brodmann area 33|33]].

It is involved in certain higher-level functions, such as [[attention]] allocation,<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Pardo JV, Pardo PJ, Janer KW, Raichle ME | title = The anterior cingulate cortex mediates processing selection in the Stroop attentional conflict paradigm | journal = Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | volume = 87 | issue = 1 | pages = 256–9 | date = January 1990 | pmid = 2296583 | doi = 10.1073/pnas.87.1.256 | pmc = 53241 | bibcode = 1990PNAS...87..256P | doi-access = free }}</ref> [[pavlovian conditioning|reward anticipation]], [[decision-making]], impulse control (e.g. performance monitoring and error detection),<ref>{{cite web | url = http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-brain-scans.html
| title = Predicting repeat offenders with brain scans: You be the judge | first = John | last = Hewitt | name-list-style = vanc | publisher = medicalxpress.com | date = 26 March 2013 | access-date = 2013-03-26 }}</ref> and [[emotion]].<ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Decety J, Jackson PL | title = The functional architecture of human empathy | journal = Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews | volume = 3 | issue = 2 | pages = 71–100 | date = June 2004 | pmid = 15537986 | doi = 10.1177/1534582304267187 | s2cid = 145310279 }}</ref><ref>{{cite journal | vauthors = Jackson PL, Brunet E, Meltzoff AN, Decety J | title = Empathy examined through the neural mechanisms involved in imagining how I feel versus how you feel pain | journal = Neuropsychologia | volume = 44 | issue = 5 | pages = 752–61 | year = 2006 | pmid = 16140345 | doi = 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2005.07.015 | citeseerx = 10.1.1.333.2783 | s2cid = 6848345 | url = http://ilabs.washington.edu/meltzoff/pdf/JacksonMeltzoff_NP06.pdf | access-date = 12 September 2019 | archive-date = 24 February 2021 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20210224190244/http://ilabs.washington.edu/meltzoff/pdf/JacksonMeltzoff_NP06.pdf | url-status = dead }}</ref>

<!-- supports [[AMCC]] dab -->Some research calls it the '''anterior midcingulate cortex''' (aMCC). 

[[File:MRI anterior cingulate.png|thumb|alt=Sagittal MRI slice with highlighting indicating location of the anterior cingulate cortex.|[[Saggital|Sagittal]] MRI slice with highlighting indicating location of the anterior cingulate cortex]]