Wednesday, June 24th, 2009
Funny? Laughable? Ridiculous?
www.cell.com/current-biology shows humour
Related Posts: False Memory, Something in the air, What people search for, The search for the worst soundHuman emotional expressions, such as laughter, are argued to have their origins in ancestral nonhuman primate displays. To test this hypothesis, the current work examined the acoustics of tickle-induced vocalizations from infant and juvenile orangutans, gorillas, chimpanzees, and bonobos, as well as tickle-induced laughter produced by human infants.