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Sarcasm - a function of the right frontal lobe?
[APA.org] This research paper looked at patients with different sites of brain damage, and studied their ability to understand sarcasm. The authors conclude that sarcasm is a function of the right frontal lobe. Patients with lesions in the frontal lobe and the right brain were unable to understand simple irony and sarcasm.
http://www.apa.org/journals/releases/neu193288.pdf
Neuropsychology. 2005 May;19(3):288-300.
The neuroanatomical basis of understanding sarcasm and its relationship to social cognition. Shamay-Tsoory SG, Tomer R, Aharon-Peretz J. Cognitive Neurology Unit, Rambam Medical Center, Haifa, Israel. shamay@psy.haifa.ac.il.
PMID: 15910115
See also:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/...300&query_hl=11
PMID: 15781300
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