The inferior frontal gyrus is an established part of the brain system that processes facial expressions (Haxby et al., 2002) and is found to be more active during explicit, relative to implicit, processing of facial emotions (Scheuerecker et al., 2007).
We demonstrate that variation in cortical motor/somatosensory systems reflects the efficiency of a whole-brain system that processes the social and emotional relevance of heard laughter and regulates the listener's behavioral response to the stimulus.
Get your pre-frontal cortex out of the way, because it can cause the yips, and instead rely on those primitive brain systems that find optimal processes via trial, error, feedback and tweaking: The original lean methodology.
Inhibition is a fundamental property of behaviour required for flexible responding and humans have evolved executive brain systems that can engage inhibitory processes in order to reduce interference from irrelevant distracting stimuli, block unwanted memories and emotions and suppress inappropriate choices and actions.
According to general consensus, emotional memory involves multiple systems that can be distinguished in terms of the information that they process, the ways that they operate, and the brain systems that they depend on (LaBar & Cabeza, 2006; Squire, 2004).
Neural systems in the human brain that process auditory information about who spoke and what they said are functionally integrated.
Gagliano concluded by suggesting that "brains and neurons are a sophisticated solution but not a necessary requirement for learning," and that there is "some unifying mechanism across living systems that can process information and learn".
These results indicate that information about surface form and meaning of a lexical item is first accessed at different times in different brain systems and then processed simultaneously, thus supporting cascaded interactive processing models.
This stimulus sends impulses to the somatosensory cortex, an area of the brain that processes input from the various systems in the body that are sensitive to touch.
