Activity in the dorsal ACC causes deterioration of sequential motor performance due to anxiety

Performance anxiety can impair motor skill, and even affect expert athletes and musicians. Here, the authors show that anxiety affects performance at the ‘junction’ between two well-learned action sequences, and that this affect is associated with activity in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC)....

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Main Authors: Gowrishankar Ganesh, Takehiro Minamoto, Masahiko Haruno
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2019
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/ded2ea1b87c64dc18c81224bb68c243a
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Summary:Performance anxiety can impair motor skill, and even affect expert athletes and musicians. Here, the authors show that anxiety affects performance at the ‘junction’ between two well-learned action sequences, and that this affect is associated with activity in dorsal anterior cingulate cortex (dACC).