How the brain laughs. Comparative evidence from behavioral, electrophysiological and neuroimaging studies in human and monkey

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 245-260

  Meyer, Martin ^a,b   Baumann, Simon ^c,d   Wildgruber, Dirk ^e   Alter, Kai ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Auditory cortex; Laughter; Neuroimaging; Perisylvian region; Premotor cortex; Vocalization

Indexed keywords

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HEARING; HUMAN; LARYNX; MONKEY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPEECH; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HAPLORHINI; HUMANS; LAUGHTER;

EID: 34547115987     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.04.023     Document Type: Article

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