In the last two decades, a growing body of theory and research has targeted the role of
cardiac vagal control (CVC) in emotional responding. This research has either focused on
resting CVC (also denoted as cardiac vagal tone) or phasic changes in CVC (also denoted
as vagal reactivity) in response to affective stimuli. The present paper is aimed at reporting a
review of the papers published between 1996 and 2016, and focused on the results of 135
papers examining cardiac vagal control as a physiological marker of emotion regulation in�…