Frontal Lobes and Humor

The Denver Post publishes a Knight Rider News Service article (an excerpt):

"Study Links Frontal Lobe To Ability To Enjoy Humor"

"Amid all the marvelous things we humans can do with our big brains- multiply fractions, write sonnets, design Web pages- none is quite so mysterious as our ability to enjoy a good joke. Now, though, two Toronto psychologists say they've pinpointed the part of our brain largely responsible for our ability to understand a punch line and turn it into a hearty laugh- the frontal lobes. Specifically, the right hemisphere of the frontal lobes.

The fact that their work is being published in the journal Brain today, April Fool's day, they say, is merely a happy coincidence."

And, as all good Brain Explorers know, to turn on your frontal lobes is to use the most advanced part of your brain- and automatically and measurably increase intelligence, creativity, and pleasure. Laughter makes you smarter and happier.

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