UNIFR: Get Tickled for Science
A team of researchers from the University of Friborg has published a study on laughter and its control
Posted on 24.10.2022
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Find a patient inside an MRI scanner. The scene looks ordinary, but suddenly turns into the unusual, when a person begins to tickle her toes, which jump in all directions. A loud laughter erupts. It’s the result of a study by Elise Wattendorf, Reader in the University’s Faculty of Science and Medicine and Assistant Professor at the Ecole Haute St de Fribourg.
The researcher was interested in what happens in the brain when we try to talk and laugh at the same time. We give the example of former Federal Chancellor Hans Rudolf Merz, who laughed so hard in 2010 when he spoke about Graubünden’s dried meat in front of Parliament. “Pearl” he saw
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