Different Types of Laughter Modulate Connectivity within Distinct Parts of the Laughter Perception Network

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2013, Pages

  Wildgruber, Dirk ^a   Szameitat, Diana P ^a   Ethofer, Thomas ^a   Brück, Carolin ^a   Alter, Kai ^b   Grodd, Wolfgang ^c   Kreifelts, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL RWTH AACHEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANTERIOR ROSTRAL MEDIAL FRONTAL CORTEX; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION CORTEX; ATTENTION; AUDITORY ASSOCIATION CORTEX; AUDITORY ATTENTION; AUDITORY CORTEX; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMAGERY; INFERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NEUROMODULATION; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL LAUGHTER; TICKLING LAUGHTER; VISUAL IMAGINATION; WORKING MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; AUDITORY CORTEX; BRAIN MAPPING; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LAUGHTER; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MENTAL PROCESSES; NERVE NET; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84877261850     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0063441     Document Type: Article

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