Dissociation between the processing of humorous and monetary rewards in the ‘motivation’ and ‘hedonic’ brains

Humor elicits feelings of amusement and can be thought of as a social reward. We identified distinct mesolimbic reward system (MRS) processing patterns for monetary and humorous rewards. During both the reward anticipation and outcome phases, the nucleus accumbens (NAc) and anterior cingulate cortex...

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