Cognitive Neuroscience
Cognitive neuroscience has provided insight into how humor is neurologically realized. Brain imaging techniques such as fMRI and PET scans have been implemented in this subfield of humor research. These techniques have been used to support affect-based humor, showing areas of activation in the amygdala and sila, key areas of the brain involved in laughter perception, and humor appreciation. Cognitive neuroscience attempts to study humor providing a "mechanistic framework for understanding the contagiousness and affect-inducing properties of laughter, and hence the evolution of laughter as a signal.”
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