Robert R Provine
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Provine R
Behav Brain Sci
. 2018 Jan;
40:e399.
PMID: 29342808
Accounts of behavior, including imitation, often suffer from philosopher's disease: the unnecessary, inappropriate, theoretically driven explanation of behavior in terms of cognition, rationality, and consciousness. Embryos are perversely unphilosophical and...
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Provine R
Behav Brain Sci
. 2018 Jan;
40:e69.
PMID: 29342526
Vocal laughter fills conversations between speakers with normal hearing and between deaf users of American Sign Language, but laughter rarely intrudes on the phrase structure of spoken or signed conversation,...
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Provine R
Psychon Bull Rev
. 2016 Jul;
24(1):238-244.
PMID: 27368630
Laughter is a simple, stereotyped, innate, human play vocalization that is ideal for the study of vocal evolution. The basic approach of describing the act of laughter and when we...
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Provine R
J Comp Neurol
. 2015 Jul;
524(8):1532-9.
PMID: 26131571
Laughter is a stereotyped, innate, human play vocalization that provides an ideal simple system for neurobehavioral analyses of the sort usually associated with such animal models as walking, wing-flapping, and...
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Provine R
Behav Brain Sci
. 2014 Apr;
37(2):216-7.
PMID: 24775173
Contagious behaviors such as yawning and itching/scratching have mirror-like properties and clearly defined stimulus and motor parameters; they are also relatively easy to study and should be part of the...
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Provine R, Cabrera M, Nave-Blodgett J
Evol Psychol
. 2013 Aug;
11(4):873-84.
PMID: 23955871
Among primates, only humans have the white sclerae that provide the ground necessary to display their own color and that of the overlying conjunctiva. Scleral color, primarily redness, provides cues...
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Provine R, Cabrera M, Nave-Blodgett J
Hum Nat
. 2013 May;
24(2):126-36.
PMID: 23660975
The sclera, the eye's tough outer layer, is, among primates, white only in humans, providing the ground necessary for the display of colors that vary in health and disease. The...
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Provine R
Trends Cogn Sci
. 2012 Nov;
17(1):9-10.
PMID: 23168210
On the basis of naturalistic observations of people conversing and laughing in pubs, a new study suggests that the 'grooming-at-a-distance' of laughter provides a three-fold increase in grooming group size,...
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Provine R, Emmorey K
J Deaf Stud Deaf Educ
. 2006 Aug;
11(4):403-9.
PMID: 16891353
The placement of laughter in the speech of hearing individuals is not random but "punctuates" speech, occurring during pauses and at phrase boundaries where punctuation would be placed in a...