Experiencing and detecting happiness in humans: The role of the supplementary motor area
- 22 December 2005
- journal article
- case report
- Published by Wiley in Annals of Neurology
- Vol. 59 (1) , 196-199
- https://doi.org/10.1002/ana.20706
Abstract
Understanding emotions in others may involve neural structures implicated in both perception and action.1 Laughter is a socially important behavior and its neural correlates are poorly understood. Depth electrode electrophysiological techniques offer a rare opportunity to both record and stimulate neural structures involved in emotion processing.2, 3 This kind of direct electrophysiological investigation in humans is particularly determinant because laughter processing cannot be studied in animals. Ann Neurol 2005Keywords
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