Neural correlates of humor detection and appreciation

NeuroImage

Volumn 21, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1055-1060

  Moran, Joseph M ^a   Wig, Gagan S ^a   Adams Jr , Reginald B ^a   Janata, Petr ^a   Kelley, William M ^a  

^a DARTMOUTH COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

fMRI; Humor; Neural substrates

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMOR; INSULA; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TEMPORAL CORTEX;

ADULT; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HEAD MOVEMENTS; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; WIT AND HUMOR;

EID: 1542316124     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2003.10.017     Document Type: Article

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