Glad to share my first paper in postdoc! This was a huge undertaking by many people over the years. I hope you read it! But the short version is this: ACC integrates evidence from self experience and observed experience, and it weighs these sources differently by aligning readout more to the self.
Ruidong Chen
Evidence accumulation from experience and observation in the cingulate cortex https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.02.13.638172v1