AnalyzeDirect Juckel G, Mergl R, Brüne M, Villeneuve I, Frodl T, Schmitt G, Zetzsche T, Born C, Hahn K, Reiser M, Möller HJ, Bär KJ, Hegerl U, Meisenzahl EM. Is evaluation of humorous stimuli associated with frontal cortex morphology? A pilot study using facial micro-movement analysis and MRI. Cortex. May 2011;47(5):569-574.
Publication Date
May 2011
How Analyze was Used
“For further image processing with size reduction from 16 to 8 bits (transformation to a uniform matrix of 256 × 256 on 192 slices of 1.5 mm slice thickness), we used the software package Analyze™.”
Keywords
Adult
Biomechanical Phenomena
Face/physiology
Facial Expression
Functional Laterality/physiology
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Laughter/psychology
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
Male
Middle Aged
Photic Stimulation
Pilot Projects
Prefrontal Cortex/anatomy & histology/physiology
Smiling
Wit and Humor as Topic/psychology
Young Adult
Author Affiliation(s)
Department of Psychiatry, Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany. (GJ, MB, KJB)
Department of Psychiatry, University of Leipzig, Germany. (RM, UH)
Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany. (IV, TF, GS, TZ, HJM, EMM)
Institute for Clinical Radiology, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany. (GB, KH, MR)
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Tags: Adult, Biomechanical Phenomena, Computer-Assisted Image Processing, Face/physiology, Facial Expression, Functional Laterality/physiology, Humans, Laughter/psychology, Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), Male, Middle Aged, Photic Stimulation, Pilot Projects, Prefrontal Cortex/anatomy & histology/physiology, Smiling, Wit and Humor as Topic/psychology, Young Adult