Emotional Self-regulation

Abstract

Physiological mechanisms of the cerebral function were studied in self-involvement of man into a preferable emotional state. An experimental model was developed of the functional system in emotional self-regulation providing the reduction of the "result" element to preset visual biofeedback parameters monitored according to the galvanic skin response (GSR). The adaptive emotional state was achieved by the conventional and instrumental techniques. To avoid the reinforcing electrocutaneous stimulus the subjects had to actively resist the conditioned increase of the GSR amplitude