'Cingular' brain strategy for attack and defense

We often make quick strategic decisions to attack an opponent or defend our position, yet how we make them is not well understood. Now, researchers have pinpointed specific brain regions related to this process by examining neural activity in people playing shogi, a Japanese form of chess. The study shows that two different regions within the cingulate cortex--one toward the front of the brain and the other toward the back--separately encode the values of defensive and offensive strategies.