Week # 2 - August 27, 2012 Your Brain on Laughter! Physiology and evolution of laughter. Part 1.

Readings for Weeks #2, 3, & 4:
Wasilewska, Ewa:
Section 2: Toward Definition of Laughter… Laughing Dogs, Panting Chimpanzees, And Pleasure-Driven Rats.

Chapter 2: Toward Definition of Laughter… Laughing Dogs, Panting Chimpanzees, And Pleasure-Driven Rats.
Panksepp, Jaak (2007): Neuroevolutionary Sources of Laughter and Social Joy: Modeling primal human laughter in laboratory rats. A reprint from Behavioural Brain Research 182. Pp. 231-244.
Wasilewska, Ewa: Physiology and Evolution of Laughter.

Supplementary readings:
Krause, et al.: The Derived FOXP2 Variant of Modern Humans Was Shared with Neanderthals. In Current Biology (2007), doi:10.1016/j.cub.2007.10.008.