12/ During the humorous (HUM) instruction [🔴] v. the mundane/expected (MUN) [🔵], participants had greater activation in the bilateral striatum (STR), medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), temporal-occipital function (TOJ) & primary visual cortex (V1) https
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11/ So perceiving humor isn’t simple - & creating it also isn’t easy (see my bad joke above!) 😂 👉 Amir & Biederman studied 13 professional comedians, 9 amateurs & 18 controls 👉 Shown cartoon & asked to think of funny, mundane (expected), o
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Professional [comedians] by contrast, tend to reap the fruits of their spontaneous associations with reduced reliance on top-down guided search. https://t.co/wKjKDYTHS7
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RT @goodhoody: The neural correlates of creative humor... https://t.co/csK2Elwwx7 https://t.co/AdAxyoAuVh