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The area is involved in [[Eye_movement|eye movements]] and possibly in the management of uncertainty. A [[functional magnetic resonance imaging]] study demonstrated that '''Brodmann area 8''' activation occurs when test subjects experience uncertainty, and that with increasing uncertainty there is increasing activation.<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Volz KG, Schubotz RI, von Cramon DY |title=Variants of uncertainty in decision-making and their neural correlates |journal=Brain Res. Bull. |volume=67 |issue=5 |pages=403–12 |year=2005 |pmid=16216687 |doi=10.1016/j.brainresbull.2005.06.011|s2cid=15845324 }}</ref>
An alternative interpretation is that this activation in the frontal cortex encodes hope, a higher-order expectation positively correlated with uncertainty.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Chew
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