anterior cingulate cortex

“Neuroscientists found that when you pause even briefly, your anterior cingulate cortex activates. A fancy way of saying the part of your brain responsible for error detection and attention or lies, it comes to attention.”

“So in 2019, researchers ran an fMRI study that scans the brains of high procrastinators while they worked through really high pressure tasks. And they found measurably reduced activity in two regions. The anterior cingulate cortex, which handles error monitori…”