Humour appreciation: A role of the right frontal lobe

Brain

Volumn 122, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 657-666

  Shammi, P ^a   Stuss, D T ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b BAYCREST CENTRE FOR GERIATRIC CARE   (Canada)

^c ROTMAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Humour; Mental shifting; Right frontal lobe; Verbal abstraction; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMOR; LANGUAGE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORKING MEMORY;

EID: 0032952133     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/122.4.657     Document Type: Article

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