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ArticleNature neuroscience2016

Dorsal anterior cingulate: a Rorschach test for cognitive neuroscience.

R Becket Ebitz, Benjamin Yost Hayden

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Article in Nature neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 65 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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65citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

65 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  6. ENIGMA-Meditation: Worldwide Consortium for Neuroscientific Investigations of Meditation Practices.Biological psychiatry. Cognitive neuroscience and neuroimaging · 2025
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  13. A tripartite view of the posterior cingulate cortex.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2023
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  17. Rat Anterior Cingulate Cortex Continuously Signals Decision Variables in a Patch Foraging Task.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2022
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  18. Brain circuits for pain and its treatment.Science translational medicine · 2021
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  19. Functional connectivity of the anterior insula during withdrawal from cigarette smoking.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2021
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  20. Anterior Cingulate Cortex Ablation Disrupts Affective Vigor and Vigilance.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2021
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5 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

R Becket EbitzPrinceton Neuroscience Institute, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, USA.
Benjamin Yost HaydenBrain and Cognitive Sciences and Center for Visual Science, University of Rochester, Rochester, New York, USA.

Funding

Selective Attention and Reward Value in the Prefrontal Control of ChoiceF32MH102049 · NIMH · STANFORD UNIVERSITY · PI EBITZ, REBECCA · 2013 to 2016
$169k
NIMH NIH HHS F32 MH102049
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

PubMed holds no abstract for this paper.

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Cognitive NeuroscienceGyrus CinguliHumansRorschach Test

Identifiers

PMID27669987

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