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Emotion

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The focus of biological theories of emotion may be viewed as having traveled from the lower-peripheral areas (e.g., James-Lange visceral theory) to the higher-central regions involving the cortex. Despite having traveled up the neuraxis, most biological theories of emotion continue to rest on the foundations first suggested by William James in 1884. According to James, there is an intimate relationship between visceral-autonomic functions and emotional expression and experience. Although this notion has continued acceptance, this relationship was criticized by Cannon (1927) who observed that the same visceral-autonomic changes occur in very different emotions and may even occur in the absence of emotion. Visceral-autonomic changes accompanying emotion provide a general, final common pathway of emotional expression (Pribram & Melges, 1969).

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Loring, D.W., Meador, K.J., Lee, G.P., King, D.W. (1992). Emotion. In: Amobarbital Effects and Lateralized Brain Function. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2874-5_5

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  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-2874-5_5

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