Motivated control processes help us optimize our behaviour to deal with competing task demands: seeking rewards while minimizing the associated effort. A new study in Nature Human Behaviour argues that the dorsal anterior cingulate cortex, a key contributor to motivated control, tracks a computational quantity akin to surprise that is generated when events differ from our expectations.

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动机控制是神经经济学和认知神经科学之间的桥梁。

积极的控制流程可帮助我们优化行为以应对竞争性任务要求：寻求回报，同时最大程度地减少相关的工作量。一项关于《自然人类行为》的新研究认为，背侧扣带前皮质是主动控制的关键因素，它跟踪类似于事件发生时我们所期望的结果的计算量。