Anterior cingulate cortex

Anterior cingulate cortex
Anterior cingulate cortex
	Medial surface of left cerebral hemisphere, with anterior cingulate highlighted
	Medial surface of right hemisphere, with Brodmann's areas numbered
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Latin	cortex cingularis anterior
NeuroNames	161
NeuroLex ID	birnlex_936
	Anatomical terms of neuroanatomy

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 areas 24, 32, and 33.

It is involved in certain higher-level functions, such as attention allocation,^[1] reward anticipation, decision-making, impulse control (e.g. performance monitoring and error detection),^[2] and emotion.^[3]^[4]

Some research calls it the anterior midcingulate cortex (aMCC).

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