<p style="text-align: left;">The area is anterior to Brodmann area 6 and is part of the frontal cortex. It includes the frontal eye fields (so that if one has a stroke on injury to the brain in this region, the eyes will drift towards the injury. It is involved in the management of uncertainty, as well as the encoding of hope (a higher-order expectation positively correlated with uncertainty).&nbsp;<br></p><p style="text-align: center;"><img src="@@PLUGINFILE@@/ba-8.png" alt="" width="249" height="393" role="presentation" class="img-responsive atto_image_button_text-bottom"><br></p>