In decision making it is thought to detect conflicts between two deductions<ref>[http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v10/n10/abs/nn1979.html Neurocognitive correlates of liberalism and conservatism, 2007, Amodio et al. Nature neuroscience] ([http://www.talyaron.com/wiki/index.php?title=Neurocognitive_correlates_of_liberalism_and_conservatism_2007 Summery in Hebrew])</ref><ref>[http://cercor.oxfordjournals.org/content/18/4/796.full Jin Fan, Patrick R. Hof, Kevin G. Guise, John A. Fossella and Michael I. Posner, The Functional Integration of the Anterior Cingulate Cortex during Conflict Processing, Cerebral Cortex, Volume 18 Issue 4, p. 796-805.]</ref> and [[value evaluation in the brain|evaluating]] the [[rewards]] of actions<ref>[http://www.nature.com/neuro/journal/v9/n7/abs/nn1724.html Kennerley et al., Optimal decision making and the anterior cingulate cortex, Nature Neuroscience 9, 940 - 947 (2006)] </ref>. On the integration of these finding please read this [http://www.lamsade.dauphine.fr/~mousseau/pmwiki-2.1.5/uploads/Bibliographie/13.pdf article].D1 ([[dopamine]] 1) receptor blockade in ACC reduces preference for expending effort for rats<ref>Schweimer J, Hauber W. Dopamine D1 receptors in the anterior cingulate cortex regulate effort-based decision-making. Learning & Memory. 2006;13: 777–782</ref>.

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