Trait cheerfulness modulates BOLD response in lateral cortical but not limbic brain areas-A pilot fMRI study

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 445, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 242-245

  Rapp, Alexander M ^a   Wild, Barbara ^a   Erb, Michael ^a   Rodden, Frank A ^a   Ruch, Willibald ^b   Grodd, Wolfgang ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Cheerfulness; Exhiliration; fMRI; Humor; Inferior parietal lobule; Laughter; Personality

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EXTRAVERSION; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HUMOR; PERSONALITY TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

BRAIN MAPPING; CEREBRAL CORTEX; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; OXYGEN; PERSONALITY; PILOT PROJECTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; WIT AND HUMOR AS TOPIC;

EID: 53249113056     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2008.09.017     Document Type: Article

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