Table of Contents
- Title Page
- Abstract
- Preview
- Why Look at Laughter
- Musical Humor
- Study of Evoked Laughter in Peter Schickele
- Types of Laughter Devices (I)
- Types of Laughter Devices (II)
- Veridical vs. Schematic Expectations
- Schickele's Beethoven Misquotation
- Violating Expectations
- Some Probability Estimates of Violated Expectations
- Summary/Interlude
- Laughter Research
- Types of Laughter
- A Closer Look at Surprise
- Neurophyisology of Surprise
- Commonalities of Laughter
- Laughter Response
- Cross-Species Laughter Analogs
- Panting versus Laughter
- Huron's Conjecture of Laughter's Origin (I)
- Huron's Conjecture of Laughter's Origin (II)
- Conclusion
- Other Presentations