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Antagonism Between Brain Regions Relevant for Cognitive Control and Emotional Memory Facilitates the Generation of Humorous Ideas
Florian Bitsch, Philipp Berger, Andréas Fink…·Irina Falkenberg
The paper investigates brain mechanisms underlying humor generation using fMRI, finding that neural antagonism between cognitive control and emotional memory regions correlates with increased humor production.