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Decision making, performance and outcome monitoring in frontal cortical areas

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The rostral cingulate zone and the orbitofrontal cortex are active when people monitor the consequences of adaptively changing behavior. A new fMRI study distinguishes their functions, implicating them in situations with different contexts and timing.

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Figure 1: Schematic of the two frontal regions implicated in monitoring functions.

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