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 ---------------------------------- Deb Dr. Deborah S. Briihl Dept. of Psychology and Counseling Valdosta State University 229-333-5994 dbri...@valdosta.edu --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: arch...@jab.org. To unsubscribe click here: http://fsulist.frostburg.edu/u?id=13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df5d5&n=T&l=tips&o=835 or send a blank email to leave-835-13090.68da6e6e5325aa33287ff385b70df...@fsulist.frostburg.edu
