In: Cerebral Cortex, 2013, vol. 23, no. 6, p. 1280-1289
|
In: Journal of Comparative Neurology, 2015, p. -
The insular cortex is fundamentally involved in the processing of interoceptive information. It has been postulated that the integrative monitoring of the bodily responses to environmental stimuli is crucial for the recognition and experience of emotions. Because emotional arousal is known to be closely coupled to functions of the anterior insula, we suspected laughter to be associated primarily...
|
In: Cerebral Cortex, 2013, vol. 23, no. 6, p. 1280-1289
The burst of laughter that is evoked by tickling is a primitive form of vocalization. It evolves during an early phase of postnatal life and appears to be independent of higher cortical circuits. Clinicopathological observations have led to suspicions that the hypothalamus is directly involved in the production of laughter. In this functional magnetic resonance imaging investigation, healthy...
|
