LONDON (Reuters Life!) - British scientists say they have uncovered how the human brain responds to jokes -- research which could help to determine whether patients in a vegetative state can ...

Researchers at Western University, Canada, have investigated the neural mechanisms underlying humor processing, specifically focusing on humor comprehension and appreciation. The researchers aimed to ...

Understanding a joke and finding it funny are distinct processes in the human brain, each involving specialized brain regions 1. Margaret Prenger at the Western University in London, Canada, and her ...

At its core, a pun is a play on words which meshes two usually unrelated words together in an attempt at humor. It depends heavily on paranosmia, exploiting similarly sounding phrases or words to ...