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The ACC has pivotal role in excutive process, motivation, alocation of attentional resources, premotor function,and error detection<ref>Turken AU & Swick D, responce selection in the ACC, ''Nat Neurosci.'', 1999, 920-4</ref>.
The [[ACC]] is activated by modrate to strong pain<ref>[http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/125/2/310.full.pdf Casey 1994]</ref> and it has strong opoite receptors (That is knowen to reduce pain)<ref>[http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/125/2/310.full.pdf Jones 1991]</ref>.In the ACC there are regions that are activated by pain. and there are areas that are activated in by attention<ref>[http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/125/2/310.full.pdf Vogt 1992]</ref><ref>[http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/125/2/310.full.pdf Davis 1997]</ref>. They are in part adjacent to each other<ref>[http://brain.oxfordjournals.org/content/125/2/310.full.pdf Hsiah 1995]</ref>.
The '''anterior cingulate cortex''' (ACC) is the frontal part of the [[cingulate cortex]], that resembles a "collar" form around the [[corpus callosum]], the fibrous bundle that relays neural signals between the right and left [[cerebral hemisphere]]s of the brain. It consists of Brodmann areas 24, 32 and 33. It appears to play a role in a wide variety of [[Autonomic nervous system|autonomic]] functions, such as regulating blood pressure and heart rate, as well as rational cognitive functions, such as reward anticipation, [[Decision Making|decision making]], empathy<ref>http://ccare.stanford.edu/node/89</ref> and emotion.<ref>Decety, J., & Jackson, P.L. (2004). The functional architecture of human empathy. Behavioral and Cognitive Neuroscience Reviews, 3, 71-100.</ref><ref>Jackson P.L., Brunet E., Meltzoff A.N., Decety J., 2006 Empathy examined through the neural mechanisms involved in imagining how I feel versus how you feel pain: An event-related fMRI study, ''Neuropsychologia'', 44, pp. 752–61</ref>