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Fausto Caruana, fausto.caruana@in.cr.it

F.C.: writing—original draft, writing—review and editing; E.P.: writing—original draft, writing—review and editing; F.B.M.d.W.: writing—original draft, writing—review and editing. All authors gave final approval for publication and agreed to be held accountable for the work performed therein.

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Keywords:

  • Biology
  • Laughter
  • Neurosciences

Cracking the laugh code: laughter through the lens of biology, psychology and neuroscience

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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volume:

Volume 377, Number 1863

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, Pages 20220159-20220159

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Article | Final Publisher PDF

Abstract:

Laughter affects conversational schemes, supports speech production, establishes social bonds and is connected to playfulness. Despite the pervasiveness of this behaviour, research on laughter has long been underdeveloped, probably because it does not sound like a serious topic. Also, its social and expressive nature represents a major technical difficulty for both laboratory and naturalistic studies. The quest to uncover the processes underlying the production and perception of laughter is still in its early days, but a renewed interest in this behaviour has boosted the emergence of new ecological studies in a set of fields encompassing a broad spectrum of disciplines.

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