Anterior cingulate cortex causally supports flexible learning under motivationally challenging and cognitively demanding conditions

• Kianoush Banaie Boroujeni ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kianoush.banaie.boroujeni@vanderbilt.edu (KBB); thilo.womelsdorf@vanderbilt.edu (TW)

  Affiliation Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Michelle K. Sigona,

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliations Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Robert Louie Treuting,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Thomas J. Manuel,

  Roles Software

  Affiliations Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Charles F. Caskey,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Vanderbilt University Institute of Imaging Science, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Vanderbilt University Medical Center Department of Radiology and Radiological Sciences, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

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• Thilo Womelsdorf

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kianoush.banaie.boroujeni@vanderbilt.edu (KBB); thilo.womelsdorf@vanderbilt.edu (TW)

  Affiliations Department of Psychology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6921-4187

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