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Recent Trends in the Study of the Links Between Emotions and Brain Laterality

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Emotions and the Right Side of the Brain

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This chapter concerns some recent trends in the study of the links between emotions and brain laterality and separately discusses: (a) negative data obtained by functional neuroimaging studies of the neural correlates of emotions; (b) laterality effects in brain structures that have a crucial role in specific emotional functions; (c) emotional and behavioural disorders of patients with asymmetrical forms of fronto-temporal degeneration (FTD). As to the first issue, both the methodological and the experimental reasons for the disappointing results obtained by functional neuroimaging studies will be briefly discussed. With respect to the second problem, attention will be focused on: (1) investigations showing that the right and left amygdala have different roles in the evaluation of emotional stimuli, i.e. the former is involved in unconscious and the latter in conscious forms of emotional learning; (2) results suggesting that the right vmPFC has a ‘general’ role in the integration between cognition and emotion and in the control of impulsive reactions; (3) data showing that the right anterior insula critically contributes to the conscious experience of emotion. Finally, investigations will be reviewed which show that emotional disorders are in the foreground in FTD when atrophy prevails in the right frontal or temporal lobes.

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Gainotti, G. (2020). Recent Trends in the Study of the Links Between Emotions and Brain Laterality. In: Emotions and the Right Side of the Brain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34090-2_5

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