Sarcasm in the brain

I belong to a 'kada (short for barkada) which is collectively called as Sarcastic People. This came to another name as S_Pipol, as homage to the text generation. I will narrate a longer story if someone nags me (or drags me) to draw our story out.

Dedicated to these odd, weird, complex yet good friends, I would like to share a fascinating discussion about sarcasm, taken from this link: http://snipurl.com/f31x.

There's a reason why some brain-damaged people can't comprehend sarcasm, and Israeli researchers think it's because a specific brain region has gone dark. The region, according to the researchers, handles the task of detecting hidden meaning, a crucial component of sarcasm. If that part of the brain is out of commission, the irony doesn't come through, the scientists report in the May issue of Neuropsychology.

Simone Shamay-Tsoory, a researcher at the University of Haifa, says that people with prefrontal brain damage suffer from difficulties in understanding other people's mental states, and they lack empathy. Therefore, they can't understand what the speaker really is talking about, and get only the literal meaning.

In experiments where 58 subjects were exposed to several "neutral" and sarcastic comments recorded by actors as part of a story, all the subjects understood the sarcasm except for those with damage tothe prefrontal area, which is above the eye sockets and behind the forehead. And among those, people with damage to a specific area known as the ventromedial area had the most trouble deciphering sarcasm.

The findings, Shamay-Tsoory said, could help rehabilitation centers do a better job of helping brain-damaged patients adjust to the world and understand other people.

Any objections?