ANGLOPHONE NOVELISTS describing amusement are laughing all the way to the bank. Depending on context, characters can chortle, chuckle, titter, hoot, giggle, snigger, howl or guffaw. This richness of ...

Are they laughing at you or laughing with you? Your brain can tell the difference.more Curious about how different types of laughter — mocking, joyful or ticklish — are understood, researchers led by ...

Some laughs warm the cockles of one’s heart, while others scare with their sinister tones. More than 95% of conversations contain laughter. People laugh for various reasons: to express amusement, ...

There's nothing quite like that yelp of laughter you emit when being tickled. Now, experts have confirmed that shrieks induced by tickling really do sound recognisably different to other types of ...

Spontaneous and voluntary laughter come from two different regions of the brain, reveals new research. Laughter is a universal social signal that connects us with other people. But, until now, the ...

A laugh may signal mockery, humor, joy or simply be a response to tickling, but each kind of laughter conveys a wealth of auditory and social information. These different kinds of laughter also spark ...

Laughter is a universal social signal that connects us with others, but the brain regions underlying laughter are not well understood, in part because it's hard to elicit genuine laughter in the lab.

Laughter is a universal social signal that connects us with others, but the brain regions underlying laughter are not well understood, in part because it's hard to elicit genuine laughter in the lab.

Laughter is a universal social signal that connects us with others, but the brain regions underlying laughter are not well understood, in part because it’s hard to elicit genuine laughter in the lab.