One Head, Two Brains
Hidden Brain
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Humour and the Left Hemisphere
In order to understand humour, you have to be doing an awful lot of things. All of this is far better done by the right frontal cortex. If you show cartoons to people with right hemisphere damage, they ask entirely inappropriate questions and make entirely deductions about what they're seeing. Humour is another example of something very human and very important that the left hemister doesn't get....
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