(New Scientist)
Shamay-Tsoory and colleagues found that people with prefrontal damage had trouble recognising sarcasm, while people with damage in posterior brain areas were unaffected. People with damage in the right hemisphere and the prefrontal lobe also had problems understanding the emotional cues involved in processing sarcasm, such as tone of voice or theory of mind, which correlated with their ability to understand sarcasm.
Well, d-uh! Nobody said it was going to be easy.
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