Posts Tagged ‘motor cortex’
 
 
 
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"Laughter_by_David_Shankbone"
"Laughter_by_David_Shankbone"
"Laughter_by_David_Shankbone"

The Mind’s Laughter: fMRI from Japan.

Whether you know it or not, your brain acts out the words you hear. For example, a study led by Naoyuki Osaka of Kyoto University (Japan) shows that the motor cortex revs up in response to words like "belly laugh.”