Decoding brain basis of laughter and crying in natural scenes

Laughter and crying are universal signals of prosociality and distress, respectively. Here we investigated the functional brain basis of perceiving laughter and crying using naturalistic functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) approach. We measured haemodynamic brain activity evoked by laughter...

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Main Authors: Lauri Nummenmaa, Tuulia Malèn, Sanaz Nazari-Farsani, Kerttu Seppälä, Lihua Sun, Severi Santavirta, Henry K. Karlsson, Matthew Hudson, Jussi Hirvonen, Mikko Sams, Sophie Scott, Vesa Putkinen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2023-06-01
Series:NeuroImage
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811923002288