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This patch of brain tucked behind the orbits of the eyes is associated with evaluating information. Making a rapid emotional assessment of the events of the moment is an extremely demanding job for the brain, animal or human.
Energy and arousal levels may need, to be retuned in the blink of an eye. These abrupt changes will produce either positive or negative feelings. The orbital cortex, the region that becomes active in Goel's experiment, seems the best candidate for the site that feeds such feelings into higher-level thought processes, with its close connections to the brain's sub-cortical arousal apparatus and centres of metabolic control. All warm-blooded animals make constant tiny adjustments in arousal in response to external events, but humans, who have developed a much more complicated internal life as a result of language, respond emotionally not only to their surroundings, but to their own thoughts.
Whenever a sought-for answer snaps into place, there is a shudder of pleased recognition. Creative discovery being pleasurable, humans have learned to find ways of milking this natural response. The fact that jokes tap into our general evaluative machinery explains why the line between funny and disgusting, or funny and frightening, can be so fine. Whether a joke gives pleasure or pain depends on a person's outlook. Humour may be a luxury, but the mechanism behind it is no evolutionary accident.
It's creative, perceptual, analytical and lingual. If we can figure out how the mind processes humour, then we'll have a pretty good handle on how it works in general.
Questions Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 76? Questions The diagram below shows the areas of the brain activated by jokes. Write your answers in boxes on your answer sheet. Questions Complete each sentence with the correct ending A-G below. Write the correct letter A-G in boxes on your answer sheet. B helped create language in humans. C respond instantly to whatever is happening.
D may provide valuable information about the operation of the brain. E cope with difficult situations. F relate to a person's subjective views. G led our ancestors to smile and then laugh.
used for telling someone that you do not understand why they are laughing, and that you are slightly annoyed by it. What's so funny about my hair? Synonyms. What's so funny? John McCrone reviews recent research on humour. The joke comes over the headphones: ' Which side of a dog has the most.
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