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'Comedy brain cell' that responds to humour found

telegraph.co.uk
04-Sep-2008
        
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By Roger Highfield, Science Editor A 'comedy brain cell' has been discovered by scientists, which responds to humour. The unique experiment found that an individual brain cell fires during The Simpsons, and go into action once again as a person freely recalls the same episode. The same cell became more excited, albeit to a lesser extent, when it came to the TV sitcom Seinfeld too. The advance in understanding the... [read full story]                    

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05-Sep-2008
        

London, Sept 05: Humour? Well, it's all in the mind, says a new study. An international team, led by researchers at Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, has carried out the study and discovered what it claims is a...

Found: The comedy brain cell

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Scientists have identified a ‘comedy brain cell’ that responds to humour. Experiments have shown that an individual brain cell fires while a patient watches The Simpsons, and again when they recall the episode moments...