I've always known that my rats were laughing at me -- my students
corroborated this.
On Feb 24, 2010, at 9:17 AM, Deborah S Briihl wrote:
This morning, in my mailbox, I found an ad from WW Norton
Publishing on
books related to Interpersonal Neurobiology. One of the books is
authored by Jaak Panksepp, who, according to the ad, is famous for
coining the term affective neuroscience AND his popular research on
laughter in rats. I had to see this for myself, so I look this up and,
yes, this is what he is claiming to have discovered.
http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/03/18/what-happens-when-
you-tickle-a-rat-see-for-yourself/
Apparently, when tickling rats, the rats make a repeated 50 Khz tone
that we have been unable to hear (so, that's why we have never
discovered this before), which is laughing (?).
Attempts to publish this in Nature were rejected. But, the article
that
was submitted is included here as well.
http://books.google.com/books?
hl=en&lr=&id=512I3JZzxEMC&oi=fnd&pg=PA231&dq=jaak+panksepp+tickling
+rats&ots=PnFlGDRX1y&sig=WkCKl91AFhEZl1hMZvyyHTZNoWA#v=onepage&q=jaak%
20panksepp%20tickling%20rats&f=false
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Deb
Paul Brandon
Emeritus Professor of Psychology
Minnesota State University, Mankato
[email protected]
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