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While psycho-physiological changes have extensively been characterized from a single-system viewpoint, cross-system correlates of emotion especially linked to a functional BHI are yet unknown.
In this chapter, we briefly review the current state of the art reporting on concurrent changes in the central and autonomic nervous system dynamics throughout different emotional responses. It is emphasized that different functional BHI estimation methods contribute to the comprehensive characterization of emotional processing and regulation through image and video elicitations.
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Catrambone, V., Valenza, G. (2021). Emotion. In: Functional Brain-Heart Interplay. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-79934-2_4
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