HUMOUR AND LAUGHTER AS VESTIGES OF EVOLUTION

Humour and laughter as vestiges of evolution

This paper argues in favour of considering humour and laughter as embodied signs of the ancient, sympathetic, figurative mode of the human mind, still working with us in dance, music, singing and literary activity.Starting from steady evolutionary provisos, both the continuity and the departing lines between nonhuman vocalisations and human laughte

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Implicit binding of facial features during change blindness.

Change blindness refers to the inability to detect visual changes if introduced together with an eye-movement, blink, flash of light, or with distracting stimuli.Evidence of implicit detection of changed visual features during change blindness has been reported in a number of studies using both behavioral and neurophysiological measurements.However

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