For a brief moment, the best-priced performance in London was a comedy show by Western University neuroscientists. No two-drink minimum necessary. Participants in the study had their brains scanned ...

Humor processing engages a distributed network that integrates cognitive appraisal, affective response and motor expression. Initial detection of an incongruity in a humorous stimulus recruits regions ...

Cognitive reappraisal is a strategy for everyday living in which a person deliberately aims to modify their emotional response to experience by changing their thoughts. It involves evaluating an ...