"I wonder how the election will affect brain cells???"
Ottawa Citizen
Ottawa Citizen
A "comedy brain cell" that responds to humour has been discovered by
scientists.
Clips of The Simpsons, Seinfeld and cartoons were shown to epilepsy patients whose brain reactions were monitored. A particular cell "sparked" when watching the clips, and reignited when the programs were recalled.
Funnier programs created a bigger reaction.
The advance in understanding the neuroscience of comedy is reported in the journal Science by researchers in Israel and California.
Patients in the U.S. had electrodes implanted into their brains to help find where their seizures started. They were shown 48 different comedy clips; one patient exhibited a cell that responded most vigorously to The Simpsons.
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