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      Locating the Brain's Funny Bone

      “Getting” a joke and cracking up have separate addresses

      • By Dwayne Godwin, Jorge Cham on September 1, 2015
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      This article was originally published with the title "The Brain's Funny Bone" in SA Mind 26, 5, 72 (September 2015)

      doi:10.1038/scientificamericanmind0915-72

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        Dwayne Godwin is a neuroscientist at the Wake Forest University School of Medicine.

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