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Summary Of The Biology Of Humor: The Laughter Circuit By Eric Johnson

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The Biology of Humor: The laughter Circuit by Eric Johnson is a quick article explaining how the right frontal lobe is “a place where all the components of self-awareness… come together.” The article begins with a narrative about a boy who went to his mother’s funeral, and began to laugh and could not stop. The boy went to the hospital but nothing was concluded, and two days later, he died. He had passed away from an aneurysm in his brain. This anecdote allows the article to begin to discuss how each joke uses many parts of the brain to understand. It has also been discovered that people who have language disorders resulting from damage to the right hemisphere of the brain have a poor sense of humor. There was many test taken on patients
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