Monday, May 23, 2005

BBC NEWS | Health | Discovery of 'irony' brain areas: "By comparing healthy people and those with damage to different parts of the brain, they found the front of the brain was a key to understanding irony."

Next week: brain found to be seat of soul; kidneys say "we're miffed."
Posted by Grill at 5/23/2005 08:25:00 am

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

The pituary gland was a hot favourite with Descartes, I think.

5/26/2005 9:16 pm
Grill said...

True, though he believed animal spirits flowed from it through the tubule-nerves to move the limbs by pneumatic power. I'm not sure if irony was controlled by the animal spirits.

5/27/2005 9:39 am

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