Emotions and the right side of the brain

Emotions and the right side of the brain / Guido Gainotti.

This book focuses on asymmetries in brain structure and their role in emotional functions (such as amygdala in emotional comprehension, the ventro-medial prefrontal cortex in the integration between cognition and emotion and in the control of emotional reactions, and the anterior insula in the exper...

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Main Author: Gainotti, Guido (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: [Cham] : Springer, [2020]
Subjects:
Emotions.
Neurology.
emotion.
Emotions
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Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • 1: Introduction
  • References
  • 2: What Are Emotions
  • 2.1 Attempts to Define the Word 'Emotions' by Stressing Their Adaptive Value
  • 2.2 Similarities and Differences Between the Emotional and the Cognitive System
  • 2.3 The Hierarchical Structure of Human Emotions
  • References
  • 3: Brain Structures Playing a Critical Role in Different Components and Hierarchical Levels of Emotions
  • 3.1 Brain Structures That Underlie the Main Components of Emotions
  • 3.1.1 Brain Structures That Subsume the Evaluation of Emotional Significance
  • 3.1.2 The Contribution of the Anterior Insula to the Conscious Experience of Emotion
  • 3.1.3 Brain Structures That Contribute to the Generation of Emotional Responses
  • 3.1.3.1 Brain Structures Involved in the Vegetative Components of the Emotional Response
  • 3.1.3.2 Brain Structures Involved Generating the Expressive-Motor Components of the Emotional Response
  • 3.2 Brain Structures Involved in the Highest Levels of Emotions and in the Control of Socially Unacceptable Emotional Responses
  • 3.3 More Complex Neurobiological Models of the Interactions Between Different Brain Structures Involved in Emotional Functions
  • References
  • 4: The History of Research on Emotional Laterality
  • 4.1 The Pioneers
  • 4.2 First Interpretations of the Different Emotional Behaviour Shown by Right and Left Brain-Damaged Patients
  • 4.3 Experimental and Clinical Investigations That Have Studied the Nonverbal Communicative Aspects of Emotions
  • 4.3.1 Investigations That Have Studied Comprehension and Expression of Emotions in Normal Subjects
  • 4.3.2 Investigations That Studied the Communicative Aspects of Emotions in Right and Left Brain-Damaged Patients
  • 4.3.3 Models of Emotional Laterality Prompted by Studies of the Nonverbal Communicative Aspects of Emotions
  • 4.3.3.1 The Hypothesis of a Right Hemisphere Dominance for Nonverbal Communication
  • 4.3.3.2 The Hypothesis That Hemispheric Asymmetries May Concern Two Hierarchical Levels, Rather than Two Opposite Dimensions of Emotions
  • 4.3.3.3 The Hypothesis Which Assumes That Frontal Lobe Asymmetries Are More Related to the Motivational System Engaged by the Stimulus than to Its Emotional Valence
  • 4.4 Experimental and Clinical Investigations That Studied Laterality of the Autonomic Components of Emotions
  • 4.4.1 Psychophysiological Correlates of Emotional Activation in Unilateral Brain-Damaged Patients
  • 4.4.2 Hemispheric Asymmetries for Autonomic Heart Control
  • 4.4.3 Psychophysiological Correlates of the Selective Emotional Stimulation of the Right and Left Hemispheres in Normal Subjects

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