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This is your brain on jokes!

Why do we laugh at jokes? Laughlab knows, they have located the funnybone of the brain.

This is what it looks like:

The part of the brain shown in the image above (called the Prefrontal cortex) plays a vital role in the type of flexible thinking needed to understand a joke. It makes sense of the punchline and produces a strong sense of surprise.

Now you know. Found this via hakank.blogg.

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