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A new study conducted at the University of Windsor in Ontario has identified how the human brain processes puns, and why some people find them so terribly un-funny.
According to an article in Scientific American, the left and right hemispheres of the brain have to work in tandem to decipher puns.
"In puns—where words have multiple, ambiguous meanings—the sentence context primes us to interpret a word in a specific way, an operation that occurs in the left hemisphere," the article explains. "Humor emerges when the right hemisphere subsequently clues us in to the word's other, unanticipated meaning," it goes on to say. Essentially, if your right hemisphere isn't keeping up with your left, you'll understand the pun, but find it shockingly boring.
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