Thursday, May 26, 2005
This explains a lot
Scientists have discovered Comedy Central in the brain - specific tissue regulating the ability to understand sarcasm.
People with damage to the right frontal lobe, right behind the eyes, are unable to appreciate this kind of humor.
In sarcasm, "the literal meaning is different from the true meaning, and some people just don't understand that difference," said Simone Shamay-Tsoory, a psychologist at the Rambam Medical Center and University of Haifa in Israel. Her study appears in the May issue of the journal Neuropsychology.
I have always thought that people who do not understand sarcasm are brain damaged. How right I was.
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