Neuroanatomy of Shared Conversational Laughter in Neurodegenerative Disease

Perceiving another person's emotional expression often sparks a corresponding signal in the observer. Shared conversational laughter is a familiar example. Prior studies of shared laughter have made use of task-based functional neuroimaging. While these methods offer insight in a controlled set...

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Published in:	Frontiers in Neurology
Main Authors:	Peter S. Pressman, Suzanne Shdo, Michaela Simpson, Kuan-Hua Chen, Clinton Mielke, Bruce L. Miller, Katherine P. Rankin, Robert W. Levenson
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2018-06-01
Subjects:	laughter communication neuroanatomy empathy voxel-based morphometry
Online Access:	https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fneur.2018.00464/full