Neuroevolutionary sources of laughter and social joy: Modeling primal human laughter in laboratory rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 231-244

  Panksepp, Jaak ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

50 kHz USVs; Joy; Play; Separation distress; Tickling

Indexed keywords

BRAIN FUNCTION; COGNITION; EMOTIONALITY; HAPPINESS; HUMAN; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PLAY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; COGNITION; EMOTIONS; EVOLUTION; HUMANS; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; LAUGHTER; RATS;

EID: 34347206487     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.02.015     Document Type: Review

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