Spontaneous and voluntary laughter come from two different regions of the brain, reveals new research. Laughter is a universal social signal that connects us with other people. But, until now, the ...

New Delhi, Jul 6 (PTI) Researchers have analysed reports of medical procedures in which the brains of awake people were ...

Laughter is a universal social signal that connects us with others, but the brain regions underlying laughter are not well understood, in part because it’s hard to elicit genuine laughter in the lab.

Italian neuroscience team maps two distinct neural circuits for spontaneous and social laughter in epilepsy patients ...

If you’ve ever burst out in a fit of laughter from a friend’s off-the-cuff joke, you know it just feels different compared to a typical chuckle. New research argues that the same is definitely true ...

Can we infer someone's cultural group from their laugher, even when we do not know what they are laughing at? And what kind of laughter do we find most positive? A new study shows that our laughter ...

Nothing can match the energy of watching a funny movie with an theater full of laughing strangers. And it’s not just your imagination: As scientists have found, we actually think jokes are funnier ...

Prior posts in this series have explored some of the many factors influencing the perception of vulnerability, the amusement it sometimes fosters, and the desire to express this feeling through ...

Can we infer someone's cultural group from their laugher, even when we do not know what they are laughing at? And what kind of laughter do we find most positive? A new study by researchers from the ...