Your brain can recognize a joke and start laughing in less than half a second.
✓ TRUE FACT
The brain can process incongruity quickly—often within hundreds of milliseconds—especially with simple punchlines. The physical laugh response can follow fast, because laughter is partly automatic once the “this is funny” signal hits.
🤯 "Your brain can recognize a joke and start laughing in less than half a second — faster than you can pretend you “get it.”"