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Macaques were taught a reward-conditional response selection task; they learned to associate each of two different actions to each of two different rewards and to select actions that were appropriate for particular rewards. They were also taught a visual discrimination learning task. Cingulate lesions significantly impaired selection of responses associated with different rewards but did not interfere with visual discrimination learning or performance. The results suggest that 1) the cingulate cortex is concerned with action reward associations and not limited to just detecting when actions lead to errors and 2) that the cingulate cortex's function is limited to action reinforcer associations and it is not concerned with stimulus reward associations.

Original publication

DOI

10.1152/jn.00634.2002

Type

Journal article

Journal

J Neurophysiol

Publication Date

02/2003

Volume

89

Pages

1161 - 1164

Keywords

Animals, Conditioning (Psychology), Discrimination Learning, Gyrus Cinguli, Macaca mulatta, Male, Photic Stimulation, Reward