It seems that rostral ACC is in the side of the critique<ref>Etkin et al., Emotional processing in anterior cingulate and medial prefrontal cortex, 2011</ref> and have negative feedback on selection of actions. it is highly active in depression<ref>Wagner G, Sinsel E, Sobanski T, et al. Cortical inefficiency in patients with unipolar depression: an event-related FMRI study with the Stroop task. ''Biol Psychiatry'' 2006;59:958-65.</ref>. rACC is correlated with error detection<ref>[http://www.pnas.org/content/102/43/15700.full Polli et al, Rostral and dorsal anterior cingulate cortex make dissociable contributions during antisaccade error commission]</ref><ref>[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/1469-8986.3720216/abstract Kiehl et al, Error processing and the rostral anterior cingulate: An event-related fMRI study, 2000]</ref>. It is used in emotional conflicts<ref>[http://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(06)00626-X Etkin A et al.,Resolving Emotional Conflict: A Role for the Rostral Anterior Cingulate Cortex in Modulating Activity in the Amygdala, Neuron, Volume 51, Issue 6, 871-882, 21 September 2006]</ref> but not with neutral conflicts<ref>[http://www.researchgate.net/publication/227853968_Impaired_Conflict_Adaptation_in_an_Emotional_Task_Context_following_Rostral_Anterior_Cingulate_Cortex_Lesions_in_Humans/file/79e414fe432dd9ea2d.pdf Martin E. Maier, Impaired Conflict Adaptation in an Emotional Task Context following Rostral Anterior Cingulate Cortex Lesions in Humans, 2012]</ref><ref>Egner T; Etkin A; Gale S; Hirsch J: Dissociable neural systems resolve conflict from emotional versus nonemotional distracters. Cereb Cortex 2008; 18:1475—1484</ref><ref>Etkin A; Egner T; Peraza DM; Kandel ER; Hirsch J: Resolving emotional conflict: a role for the rostral anterior cingulate cortex in modulating activity in the amygdala. Neuron 2006; 51:871—882</ref>.

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