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Podcast: The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy
Episode: Interview #27: Why Do We Laugh? (With Professor Sophie Scott)
Description: Professor Scott is the Director of the Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, and Head of the Speech Communications Group. Her research studies the neural basis of vocal communication - how our brains process the information in speech and voices, and how our brains control the production of our voice. Professor Scott also researches the expression of emotion in the voice, especially laughter. In this episode, we spend some time discussion why we laugh and how this might change with mental illness, what makes something funny, and why our voices are so relevant in understanding our mental state. Professor S...