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Pre-SMA activation and the perception of contagiousness and authenticity in laughter sounds

Billing, ADN; Cooper, RJ; Scott, SK; (2021) Pre-SMA activation and the perception of contagiousness and authenticity in laughter sounds. Cortex , 143 pp. 57-68. 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.06.010. Green open access

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Abstract

Functional near-infrared spectroscopy and behavioural methods were used to examine the neural basis of the behavioural contagion and authenticity of laughter. We demonstrate that the processing of laughter sounds recruits networks previously shown to be related to empathy and auditory-motor mirror networks. Additionally, we found that the differences in the levels of activation in response to volitional and spontaneous laughter could predict an individual's perception of how contagious they found the laughter to be.

Type: Article
Title: Pre-SMA activation and the perception of contagiousness and authenticity in laughter sounds
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2021.06.010
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cortex.2021.06.010
Language: English
Additional information: /© 2021 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons. org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Keywords: fNIRS, Social behaviour, Communication, Laughter
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Med Phys and Biomedical Eng
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10133526
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