Humor as a reward mechanism: event-related potentials in the healthy and diseased brain.

Humor processing involves distinct processing stages including incongruity detection, emotional response, and engagement of mesolimbic reward regions. Dysfunctional reward processing and clinical symptoms in response to humor have been previously described in both hypocretin deficient narcolepsy-cat...

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Main Authors: Armand Mensen, Rositsa Poryazova, Sophie Schwartz, Ramin Khatami
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3906016?pdf=render