June 11, 2005

Theory of Mind and the Seat of Sarcasm


Looks like the part of the brain responsible for interpreting irony and sarcasm is in the prefrontal cortex. I always thought it was somewhere behind the eyeballs, since whenever I make a sarcastic comment, people's eyes tend to roll up into the back of their heads.

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