In: Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience, 2019, p. -
In analogy to the appreciation of humor, that of tickling is based upon the re- interpretation of an anticipated emotional situation. Hence, the anticipation of tickling contributes to the final outburst of ticklish laughter. To localize the neuronal substrates of this process, fMRI was conducted on 31 healthy volunteers. The state of anticipation was simulated by generating an uncertainty...
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In: Cerebral Cortex, 2013, vol. 23, no. 6, p. 1280-1289
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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...
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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...
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Thèse de doctorat : Université de Fribourg, 2006.
Research on language acquisition has shown that language development depends on language experience during early childhood. Early acquisition of one as opposed to two languages should therefore influence the development of language capabilities. Various psycholinguistic studies have provided support for this idea. The impact of early second language acquisition on the establishment of the...
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