[ExI] Sarcasm

hkhenson hkhenson at rogers.com
Sun Jun 22 04:38:05 UTC 2008


At 07:35 PM 6/20/2008, you wrote:
>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?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/health/research/03sarc.html?ex=1228622400&en=03e580d3852b34b7&ei=5087&WT.mc_id=HL-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M047-OP-0608-HDR&WT.mc_ev=click&mkt=HL-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M047-OP-0608-HDR





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