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Task-Specific Neural Representations of Generalizable Metacognitive Control Signals in the Human Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex

Jie Su, Wenbin Jia and Xiaohong Wan
Journal of Neuroscience 16 February 2022, 42 (7) 1275-1291; https://doi.org/10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1283-21.2021

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  • Submitted on: (19 February 2022)
    Page navigation anchor for RE: Cognition, instinct and the ACC
    RE: Cognition, instinct and the ACC
    • Peter Snow, Professor of Neuroscience, Medical School, Griffith University, Australia

    It is virtually impossible to demonstrate metacognition...defined as....thinking about one's thoughts...in nonhuman primates (Byrne, 1995 The Thinking Ape). In sub-primate mammals the areas of the pfc that are activated when we think...Brodmanns areas 9, 10, 46 & 47....are completely absent. - haven't evolved. Behaviour...including attention, learning, instinctually (emotional/viscerally derived) motivation are all functions of the the highest center of emotion, the anterior cingulate cortex (AAC). The error in logic here is the author's assumption that learning and decision making (cf. a simple integrated circuit can do these things) are behavioural properties indicative of cognition/mentation/thought etc

    There is no evidence, whatsoever, behaviorally or neuroanatomically etc that subprimate mammals have the cerebral faculty of thought.

    Reference:
    Snow PJ. The Structural and Functional Organization of Cognition. Front Hum Neurosci. 2016 Oct 17;10:501.
    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00501/full

    Competing Interests: None declared.
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Task-Specific Neural Representations of Generalizable Metacognitive Control Signals in the Human Dorsal Anterior Cingulate Cortex
Jie Su, Wenbin Jia, Xiaohong Wan
Journal of Neuroscience 16 February 2022, 42 (7) 1275-1291; DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1283-21.2021
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  • Published on: (19 February 2022)
    Page navigation anchor for RE: Cognition, instinct and the ACC
    RE: Cognition, instinct and the ACC
    • Peter Snow, Professor of Neuroscience, Medical School, Griffith University, Australia

    It is virtually impossible to demonstrate metacognition...defined as....thinking about one's thoughts...in nonhuman primates (Byrne, 1995 The Thinking Ape). In sub-primate mammals the areas of the pfc that are activated when we think...Brodmanns areas 9, 10, 46 & 47....are completely absent. - haven't evolved. Behaviour...including attention, learning, instinctually (emotional/viscerally derived) motivation are all functions of the the highest center of emotion, the anterior cingulate cortex (AAC). The error in logic here is the author's assumption that learning and decision making (cf. a simple integrated circuit can do these things) are behavioural properties indicative of cognition/mentation/thought etc

    There is no evidence, whatsoever, behaviorally or neuroanatomically etc that subprimate mammals have the cerebral faculty of thought.

    Reference:
    Snow PJ. The Structural and Functional Organization of Cognition. Front Hum Neurosci. 2016 Oct 17;10:501.
    https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnhum.2016.00501/full

    Competing Interests: None declared.