Is laughing Autonomic reflex?

Question

Becaus when you laugh, you can't control it (Although you try to...)or see it coming...

Answer 1

Some scientists believe that laughing caused by tickling is a built-in reflex because even babies do it. If this is true, then you should be able to tickle yourself...but you can't, can you? Even if you try to tickle yourself in exactly the same way that another person tickles you, you don't laugh. Why is this? The information sent to your spinal cord and brain should be exactly the same. Apparently for tickling to work, the brain needs tension and surprise. When you tickle yourself, you know exactly what will happen...there is no tension or surprise.

Answer 2

No. By virtue of the word "autonomic", the body would respond without the ability to control the response.

Laughing is actually a brain response. Some scientists believe that laughing caused by tickling is a built-in reflex because even babies do it. If this is true, then you should be able to tickle yourself...but you can't, can you? Even if you try to tickle yourself in exactly the same way that another person tickles you, you don't laugh. Why is this? The information sent to your spinal cord and brain should be exactly the same. Apparently for tickling to work, the brain needs tension and surprise. When you tickle yourself, you know exactly what will happen...there is no tension or surprise. How the brain uses this information about tension and surprise is still a mystery, but there is some evidence that the cerebellum may be involved.

Answer 3

An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable. Liability to attacks of laughter is one of the characteristics distinguishing man from the animals -- these being not only inaccessible to the provocation of his example, but impregnable to the microbes having original jurisdiction in bestowal of the disease. Whether laughter could be imparted to animals by inoculation from the human patient is a question that has not been answered by experimentation. Dr. Meir Witchell holds that the infection character of laughter is due to the instantaneous fermentation of sputa diffused in a spray. From this peculiarity he names the disorder Convulsio spargens.


Research has shown that parts of the limbic system are involved in laughter. The limbic system is a primitive part of the brain that is involved in emotions and helps us with basic functions necessary for survival. Two structures in the limbic system are involved in producing laughter: the amygdala and the hippocampus.

Answer 4

I would say no, because not everyone laughs at all things that are funny. People see funny differently.

Answer 5

O :)) ;)) great my reflex after reading ur qurtion was nothing but laughing
i saw some boring science answers give for this Laughter Quetion thanks :))

Answer 6

no, a sub-conscious emotional reaction to an emotional response of thinking something is funny.

Answer 7

yes it is im laughing right now

Answer 8

yeah, sure

Answer 9

idiot