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Hypotheses about its function include guiding reward-based decision making<ref>illiams, Z. M., Bush, G., Rauch, S. L., Cosgrove, G. R. & Eskandar, E. N. Human anterior cingulate neurons and the integration of monetary reward with motor responses. Nature Neurosci.7, 1370–1375 (2004).</ref>, monitoring for conflict between competing responses<ref>otvinick, M., Nystrom, L. E., Fissell, K., Carter, C. S. & Cohen, J. D. Conflict monitoring versus selection-for-action in anterior cingulate cortex. Nature 402, 179–181 (1999)</ref> and predicting task difficulty<ref>rown, J. W. & Braver, T. S. Learned predictions of error likelihood in the anterior cingulate cortex. Science 307,
1118–1121 (2005)</ref>. later it was further demonstrated that dACC activation corrolate to the difficulty of deciding between options<ref>[http://www.pni.princeton.edu/ncc/PDFs/Anterior%20Cingulate%20&%20ERN/fMRI/Shenhav%20et%20al%20(Nat%20Neuro%2014).pdf Shenhav A, Straccia MA, Cohen JD & Botvinick MM (2014). Anterior cingulate engagement in a foraging context reflects choice difficulty rather than foraging value. Nature Neuroscience, 17:1249-1254.]</ref>. Precise mechanisms of dACC function remain unknown. It was found that dACC is involved in adapting behaviourbehaviou.<ref>[http://ziv.mgh.harvard.edu/pdf/nature11239.pdf Sheth, Sameer A., Matthew K. Mian, Shaun R. Patel, Wael F. Asaad, Ziv M. Williams, Darin D. Dougherty, George Bush, and Emad N. Eskandar. "Human dorsal anterior cingulate cortex neurons mediate ongoing behavioural adaptation." Nature (2012).]</ref>.