The anterior cingulate cortex lends a hand in response selection.
The anterior cingulate cortex is involved in decisions between conflicting response tendencies. This executive function seems to involve separate pathways for manual and verbal responses.
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Edward Awh is in the Department of Psychology, 1227 University of Oregon, Eugene, Oregon 97403, USA. awh@darkwing.uoregon.edu
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D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D006179:Gyrus Cinguli / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D009434:Neural Pathways / Q000502:physiology*; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology*; D014705:Verbal Behavior / Q000502:physiology*