前扣带回功能的冲突监测理论

前扣带回在多种任务中的普遍激活使它成为当前认知控制研究的一个热点。一般认为它是执行控制网络的一个组成部分。针对它的功能尚缺乏一个综合的可以普遍接受的理论，前扣带回功能的冲突监测理论是一个影响十分广泛的理论。它认为前扣带回通过监测冲突提供控制信号，并将控制信号传达给具体负责控制的脑区。该文对冲突监测理论的观点及其实验支持做了简要的介绍，并对该理论存在的一些问题做了一些说明

A Brief Review of Conflict Monitoring Theory

Studies of a variety of higher cognitive functions consistently activate a region of anterior cingulate cortex(ACC). ACC may play a key role in cognitive control. Although commonly hold that ACC is a part of the network involved in the regulation of mental activity, there isn't a comprehensive theory about the function of the ACC. Conflict monitoring theory is a very influential theory about the function of the ACC. Anterior cingulate cortex signal the occurrence of conflicts in information processing, thereby triggering compensatory adjustments in cognitive control. Since the idea was first proposed, a great deal of relevant empirical research has accrued. Here we gave a review of the conflict monitoring theory.