The part of the nervous system regulating organs, glands and related internal functions. It includes the sympathetic nervous system and parasympathetic nervous system. Its activity supports bodily regulation during emotion, exercise and many nonemotional states; no single recording is a direct readout of a private feeling.
A division of the autonomic nervous system contributing to regulation of organs, including control of the heart rate. Changes in cardiac activity can reflect interacting sympathetic and parasympathetic influences rather than a single scalar quantity called activation.
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