understand how the process of understanding humor occurs in our main organ, let's turn to the scientist with us. vladimir adamovich, deputy director of the institute of physiology of the academy of sciencesf belarus, is in touch hello. so tell us how our brain works when we joke or laugh ekaterina good afternoon. what actually is laughter is a very complex phenomenon and is certainly controlled by the higher parts of the brain, which are not located in the spinal cord, but in the brain, in particular under the cerebral cortex, the cerebral cortex is just the outermost parts of the brain and is controlled by cold parts of the brain, which are the youngest and most developed. if it weren’t controlled, there are neurons in these frontal parts of the brain, which are located. this sometimes, for example , happens in people with age, when a disease develops, for example, alzheimer's , then the control of this laughter, irony, and so on, is violated and already those parts of the brain that are located. deep in the region of the brainstem in the region of the subcortical regions, they begin to dominate and, by the way, sometimes laughter appears that can offend another person or vice versa. uh