Is motor inhibition during laughter due to emotional or respiratory influences?

Psychophysiology

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 254-258

  Overeem, Sebastiaan ^a   Taal, Walter ^a   Gezici, E Öcal ^a   Lammers, Gert Jan ^a   Van Dijk, J Gert ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cataplexy; Excitability; H reflex; Laughter; Motor neuron; Respiration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREATHING MECHANICS; BREATHING PATTERN; CATAPLEXY; ELECTROMYOGRAM; EMOTION; FEMALE; HOFFMANN REFLEX; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MOTONEURON; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINAL CORD MOTONEURON; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROMYOGRAPHY; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; H-REFLEX; HUMANS; LAUGHTER; MALE; MOVEMENT; RESPIRATORY MECHANICS;

EID: 1942472583     PISSN: 00485772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1469-8986.2003.00145.x     Document Type: Article

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