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One such joke in the test was: "A businessman is riding the subway after a hard day at the office. A young man sits down next to him and says, 'Call me a doctor, call me a doctor'. The businessman asks, 'What's the matter, are you sick?'.
The participants were expected to correctly identify the punch line as: "The young man says, 'I just graduated from medical school'."
The report's authors said the results suggested that age-related declines in short-term memory, abstract reasoning and moving between different thought trains may affect humour comprehension in older people.
Author Professor Brian Carpenter said: "This wasn't a study about what people find funny. It was a study about whether they get what's supposed to be funny.
"There are basic cognitive mechanisms to understanding what's going on in a joke.
"Older adults, because they may have deficits in some of those cognitive areas, may have a harder time understanding what a joke is about."
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