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Concluding Remarks: Special Relations Between Emotional System and Sympathetic Activities

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The existence of priviledged relations betweeen the emotional system and sympathetic activities is suggested by the fact that basic emotions are conceived as an emergency system, and that the aim of sympathetic activities is to allow a strong and quick response to emergency situations. Furthermore, both basic emotions and the sympathetic system are lateralised to the right hemisphere whereas more controversial is the lateralisation of the parasympathetic system. These data are consistent with a model stressing the existence of a special link between the right hemisphere, sympathetic activities and the most prototypical forms of basic emotions.

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Gainotti, G. (2020). Concluding Remarks: Special Relations Between Emotional System and Sympathetic Activities. In: Emotions and the Right Side of the Brain. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-34090-2_8

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