Laughing matters: Toward a structural and neural account

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 42, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 139-141

  Vaid, Jyotsna ^a   Kobler, James B ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGNOSIA; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; EMOTIONALITY; HUMAN; LARYNX DISORDER; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT SURVEY; SOCIAL ASPECT; SPEECH;

EID: 0034029566     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/brcg.1999.1184     Document Type: Article

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