ReviewJournal of the history of the neurosciences
A historical review of investigations on laterality of emotions in the human brain.
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- Should perception of emotions be classified according to threat detection rather than emotional valence? An updated meta-analysis for a whole-brain atlas of emotional faces processing.Journal of psychiatry & neuroscience : JPNPooled it
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- Recognising Emotions from the Voice: A tDCS and fNIRS Double-Blind Study on the Role of the Cerebellum in Emotional Prosody.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Using Low-Intensity Focused Ultrasound to Treat Depression and Anxiety Disorders: A Review of Current Evidence.Brain sciences · 2025Review
- Evidence for a compensatory relationship between left- and right-lateralized brain networks.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Horse vision through two lenses: Tinbergen's Four Questions and the Five Domains.Frontiers in veterinary science · 2025Review
- The effects of prefrontal tDCS and hf-tRNS on the processing of positive and negative emotions evoked by video clips in first- and third-person.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Mainly Visual Aspects of Emotional Laterality in Cognitively Developed and Highly Social Mammals-A Systematic Review.Brain sciences · 2024Review
- Evidence for a Compensatory Relationship between Left- and Right-Lateralized Brain Networks.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
- Is Anosognosia for Left-Sided Hemiplegia Due to a Specific Self-Awareness Defect or to a Poorly Conscious Working Mode Typical of the Right Hemisphere?Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- Amygdala lesions are associated with improved mood after epilepsy surgery.Brain structure & function · 2023Article
- Editorial: Emotional lateralization and psychopathology.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Handedness in ADHD: Meta-Analyses.Neuropsychology review · 2022Review
- Odor Pleasantness Modulates Functional Connectivity in the Olfactory Hedonic Processing Network.Brain sciences · 2022Article
- Analysis of lateral orbitofrontal cortex activation on acquisition of fear extinction and neuronal activities in fear circuit.Brain structure & function · 2022Article
- Is There a Difference in Facial Emotion Recognition after Stroke with vs. without Central Facial Paresis?Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Differential grey matter structure in women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder: evidence from brain morphometry and data-driven classification.Translational psychiatry · 2022Article
- Grey matter correlates of affective and somatic symptoms of premenstrual dysphoric disorder.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Cognition and the human-animal relationship: a review of the sociocognitive skills of domestic mammals toward humans.Animal cognition · 2022Review
- Exploring brain activity for positive and negative emotions by means of EEG microstates.Scientific reports · 2022Article
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Abstract
Different models of emotional lateralization, advanced since the first clinical observations raised this issue, will be reviewed following their historical progression. The clinical investigations that have suggested a general dominance of the right hemisphere for all kinds of emotions and the experimental studies that have proposed a different hemispheric specialization for positive vs. negative emotions (valence hypothesis) or for approach vs. withdrawal tendencies (motivational hypothesis) will be reviewed first and extensively. This historical review will be followed by a short discussion of recent anatomo-clinical and activation studies that have investigated (a) emotional and behavioral disorders of patients with asymmetrical forms of fronto-temporal degeneration and (b) laterality effects in specific brain structures (amygdala, ventro-medial prefrontal cortex, and anterior insula) playing a critical role in different components of emotions. Overall, these studies support the hypothesis of a right hemisphere dominance for all components of the emotional system.
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