strongly that future research specifically looking at foraging tasks while employing a similar methodology to ours may help to further elucidate the role(s) of ACC in guiding behavior. The use of more temporally precise or cell-type–specific techniques, such as optogenetics, may allow for the further validation of the findings presented here. Specifically, being able to manipulate ACC and DMS in different hemispheres during the presentation of the first and second cues, respectively, would help clarify whether ACC is responding to conflict specific to visual inputs in the task versus motor plans. Answering this is crucial for understanding specifically what ACC is responding to as well as in directing future research regarding the downstream regulation and implementation of cognitive control processes.
