People With Brain Injury To Frontal Lobe Don't Get Punch Lines -- Prefer
Slapstick Humor! (April 1, 1999) — Study finds people with damage to the right
frontal lobe of the brain have trouble getting punch lines and show a preference
for slapstick humor -- first evidence that frontal lobe plays a pre-eminent
role in our ability to appreciate humor and have a good belly laugh. > full
story
Television Can Enhance Children's Intellectual Development, Study Finds
(September 24, 2001) — Television is so commonly criticized as being bad for
children that an important fact sometimes gets overlooked: some types of
television
viewing may actually enhance children's intellectual development, according to
a study. > full story
Color Changes In TV Cartoons Cause Seizures (June 1, 1999) — A rash of
epileptic seizures triggered by a television cartoon has pinpointed a new type
of
epilepsy, according to a report in this month's Annals of Neurology, the
scientific journal of the American Neurological Association and the Child
Neurology
Society. > full story
Appreciation Of Humor Doesn't Change With


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