article_snippet.sent: Sarcasm is often described as the lowest form of wit, but it seems you need the right kind of wits in the first place to be able to recognise it.
article_snippet.sent: Neuroscientists have identified the area of the brain that is the key to picking up on when someone is being sarcastic.
article_snippet.sent: Neuroscientists found that people with damage to the right sagittal stratum - a bundle of white matter that lies between the cerebral cortex and subcortical structures in the brain - are unable to detect sarcasm.
article_snippet.sent: Stroke survivors often suffer damage to this area of Stroke survivors brain and struggle to recognise when family and friends are being sarcastic.