[ExI] Sarcasm

Stathis Papaioannou stathisp at gmail.com
Sat Jun 21 02:35:00 UTC 2008


2008/6/21 hkhenson <hkhenson at rogers.com>:

> Someone might hunt up some more background on this.  I was a bit
> surprised that the brain seems to have a specific region that deals
> with sarcasm.  Personally I don't think I use sarcasm very often and
> (especially in an all text channel) don't always pick up on it.

Does evidence from deficits produced by brain lesions necessarily show
that there is a specific region that deals with sarcasm and that it
was selected for this purpose by evolution?



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Stathis Papaioannou



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