An emotion-based facial expression word activates laughter module in the human brain: A functional magnetic resonance imaging study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 340, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 127-130

  Osaka, Naoyuki ^a   Osaka, Mariko ^b   Kondo, Hirohito ^a   Morishita, Masanao ^a   Fukuyama, Hidenao ^a   Shibasaki, Hiroshi ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Osaka University of Foreign Studies   (Japan)

Author keywords

Extrastriate cortex; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Laughter; Onomatopoeic words; Premotor cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FRONTAL LOBE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MOTOR SYSTEM; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OCCIPITAL LOBE; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 0344837296     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(03)00093-4     Document Type: Article

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