Intentional communication and the anterior cingulate cortex

2005 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 201-221 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oana Benga
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Anterior Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Anterior Cingulate ◽  
Neural Structure ◽  
Intentional Communication ◽  
Attention Skills ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Prelinguistic Communication ◽  
Critical Structure

This paper presents arguments for considering the anterior cingulate cortex (ACC) as a critical structure in intentional communication. Different facets of intentionality are discussed in relationship to this neural structure. The macrostructural and microstructural characteristics of ACC are proposed to sustain the uniqueness of its architecture, as an overlap region of cognitive, affective and motor components. At the functional level, roles played by this region in communication include social bonding in mammals, control of vocalization in humans, semantic and syntactic processing, and initiation of speech. The involvement of the anterior cingulate cortex in social cognition is suggested where, for infants, joint attention skills are considered both prerequisites of social cognition and prelinguistic communication acts. Since the intentional dimension of gestural communication seems to be connected to a region previously equipped for vocalization, ACC might well be a starting point for linguistic communication.

scholarly journals Anterior Cingulate Cortex for Consistency Curation

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Knud Thomsen
Keyword(s):  
Cognitive Control ◽  
Anterior Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Cognitive Architecture ◽  
Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Theoretical Models ◽  
Anterior Cingulate ◽  
Consistency Checking ◽  
Neural Structure ◽  
General Process ◽  
Wide Range

Control is essential in all complex systems serving any purpose, and cognitive control is claimed to fill a pivotal role for the cognition of natural agents. The Anterior Cingulate Cortex (ACC) is a neural structure, widely believed to be involved in cognitive control. In the human brain, the ACC undoubtedly takes a center position and features several peculiarities. It has been implicated in a wide range of tasks ranging from sensing pain and autonomic regulation to high-level executive functions like error monitoring and abstract control. A sketch how this seemingly irreconcilable plurality can be understood as manifestations of only one general process working in diverse contexts on different content is presented and also how this constitutes evidence for a specific cognitive architecture. Going beyond extant proposals for ACC function, the here presented one recommends an embedding into a very general overarching model of cognition. Discrepancy monitoring highlights deviations between predictions derived from memory content and current activations. A process doing this has recently been proposed as central to the 'Ouroboros Model' under the title of 'consumption analysis'. It is claimed that ONE functional account centered on consistency checking and, based thereupon, the overall minimization of discrepancies ("consistency curation and cultivation”) can parsimoniously explain the plentitude of reported observations for the ACC, thus shedding new light on the neural computations, which form the foundations of cognition and, finally, consciousness. A specific "natural" reconciliation of various current conceptualizations and theoretical models is offered, which points out promising directions for future modelling efforts and attempts to harness the findings generally for artificial intelligence.

scholarly journals Heterospecific and conspecific social cognition in the anterior cingulate cortex

Neuroreport ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 18 (10) ◽  
pp. 993-997 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Shinozaki ◽  
Takashi Hanakawa ◽  
Hidenao Fukuyama
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Anterior Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Anterior Cingulate

EXPANSION OF THE ANTERIOR CINGULATE CORTEX IN CHILDREN WITH LEARNING DISABILITY OF UNKNOWN AETIOLOGY

2006 ◽  
Vol 37 (S 1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Mannerkoski ◽  
H Heiskala ◽  
K Van Leemput ◽  
L Åberg ◽  
R Raininko ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Learning Disability ◽  
Anterior Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Cingulate Cortex ◽  
Anterior Cingulate ◽  
Unknown Aetiology
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