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Insular cortex activity and the evocation of laughter

Wattendorf, Elise ; Westermann, Birgit ; Lotze, Martin ; Fiedler, Klaus ; Celio, Marco R.

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...