Getting the Joke: Insight during Humor Comprehension – Evidence from an fMRI Study

Getting the Joke: Insight during Humor Comprehension – Evidence from an fMRI Study

As a high-level cognitive activity, humor comprehension requires incongruity detection and incongruity resolution, which then elicits an insight moment. The purpose of the study was to explore the neural basis of humor comprehension, particularly the moment of insight, by using both characters and l...

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Main Authors: Fang Tian, Yuling Hou, Wenfeng Zhu, Arne Dietrich, Qinglin Zhang, Wenjing Yang, Qunlin Chen, Jiangzhou Sun, Qiu Jiang, Guikang Cao
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-10-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
insight
humor comprehension
incongruity-resolution theory
character
language-free cartoon
functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI)
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01835/full

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