Abstract:
:Verbal humor deficits were investigated in right-hemisphere-damaged patients. It was hypothesized that the appreciation of jokes presupposes two elements: sensitivity to the surprise element entailed in the punch line of a joke and apprehension of the coherence which results when the punch line has been integrated with the body of the joke. The possible dissociation between these elements was tested by asking subjects to select from four alternatives the appropriate ending to a joke. Right-hemisphere patients exhibited a selective attraction to endings which contained an element of surprise but which were not otherwise coherent with the body of the joke. This finding suggests that right-hemisphere patients have difficulty in integrating content across parts of a narrative and confirms the psychological reality of the proposed distinction between the surprise and coherence elements of humor processing.
journal_name
Brain Langjournal_title
Brain and languageauthors
Brownell HH,Michel D,Powelson J,Gardner Hdoi
10.1016/0093-934x(83)90002-0subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1983-01-01 00:00:00pages
20-7issue
1eissn
0093-934Xissn
1090-2155pii
0093-934X(83)90002-0journal_volume
18pub_type
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