Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AZ, UK.
Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AZ, UK.
Curr Biol. 2019 Jul 22;29(14):R677-R678. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2019.05.073.
Laughter is a positive vocal emotional expression: most laughter is found in social interactions [1]. We are overwhelmingly more likely to laugh when we are with other people [1], and laughter can play a very important communicative role [2]. We do of course also laugh at humor - but can laughter influence how funny we actually perceive the humorous material to be? In this study, we show that the presence of laughter enhances how funny people find jokes and that this effect is increased for spontaneous laughter. This effect was present for both neurotypical and autistic participants, indicating similarities in their implicit processing of laughter.
大多数笑声都存在于社交互动中[1]。当我们与他人在一起时,我们更有可能大笑[1],笑声可以发挥非常重要的交际作用[2]。我们当然也会因为幽默而发笑——但是笑声会影响我们对幽默材料的感知有趣程度吗?在这项研究中,我们表明笑声的存在增加了人们对笑话的趣味性感知,并且这种效果对于自发性笑声来说更大。这种效果在神经典型和自闭症参与者中都存在,表明他们对笑声的隐含处理存在相似性。