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[[File:ACC decision making system.png|200px|thumb|right|The ACC decision making system. Taken from: Holroyd & Yeung, An intefgreation theory of aantirior cingulate cortex function: option selection in hirarchical renforcing learning, 2011]]

Based on Holroys & Yeung 2011<ref>[http://web.uvic.ca/~lccl/sites/default/files/2011_HolroydYeung.pdf Holroyd & Yeung, An intefgreation theory of aantirior cingulate cortex function: option selection in hirarchical renforcing learning, 2011]</ref> See also Holroys & Yeung 2012<ref>[http://psyweb.psy.ox.ac.uk/acc/papers/Holroyd%20&%20Yeung%20(2012).pdf Holroys & Yeung, 2012,Motivation of extended behaviors by anterior cingulate cortex, Trends in Cognitive Sciences, February 2012, Vol. 16, No. 2, p. 122-128]</ref>

Learning is induced because of surprise ([[RPE]]). The d[[ACC]] is concerned more with attention and motor control processes involved in behavioral adjustment. The dopamine [[RPE]] system is the process from which a learning is happening<ref>Benjamin Y. Hayden1,2, Sarah R. Heilbronner, John M. Pearson, and Michael L. Platt, Surprise Signals in Anterior Cingulate Cortex: Neuronal Encoding of Unsigned Reward Prediction Errors Driving Adjustment in Behavior, ''The Journal of Neuroscience'', 16 March 2011, 31(11): 4178-4187</ref>.

The [[ventral stratium|Ventral Stratium]] is positivly corrlated with effort, and thus it is sought to be involved in [[motivation]]<ref>[http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001266 Mechanisms Underlying Motivation of Mental Versus Physical Effort. PLoS Biology, 2012; 10 (2): e1001266 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.1001266.]</ref>. It is involved in reward system<ref>Gregorios-Pippas L, Tobler PN, Schultz W (March 2009). "[http://jn.physiology.org/content/101/3/1507.long Short-term temporal discounting of reward value in human ventral striatum"]. J. Neurophysiol. 101 (3): 1507–23. doi:10.1152/jn.90730.2008. PMC 2666398. PMID 19164109.</ref>.