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Did you ever wonder what occurs inside your body when something funny happens?
你有沒有想過當有趣的事情發生時你身體里面會發生什么?
What is this thing we have in our brains that makes us say “ha-ha” when someone slips on a banana?
當有人踩到香蕉皮滑倒時我們大腦中是什么讓我們發出“哈哈”的大笑聲呢?
One way to find out is to watch the brain laugh.
尋找答案的其中一個方法就是觀察大腦對于笑的反應。
That's pretty much what Dartmouth neuroscientist William Kelley did.
達特茅斯大學神經學家威廉·凱利所進行的就是這樣的研究。
He and his team had a number of volunteers watch an episode of Seinfeld while being monitored by an MRI-that's a machine that allows researchers to see which parts of the brain are active at any given time.
他和他的團隊讓志愿者們收看一集搞笑電視劇《宋飛正傳》,而研究人員通過監控機器觀察大腦的哪個部分在任何給定的時間是呈現活躍狀態。
They then synchronized the MRI data with the laugh track to see how the brain changes when it's registering something funny.
然后研究人員們將笑的數據同機器進行同步，進而跟蹤觀察有趣的事情發生時大腦的變化。
There's no one “funny center” in the brain–but the findings were pretty suggestive.
大腦中并非存在這樣一個“有趣中心”，但這項研究結果卻具有啟發意義。
