Abstract：
:Irony comprehension requires integration of social contextual information. Previous studies have investigated temporal aspects of irony processing and its neural substrates using psychological/electroencephalogram or functional magnetic resonance imaging methods, but have not clarified the temporospatial neural mechanisms of irony comprehension. Therefore, we used magnetoencephalography to investigate the neural generators of alpha-band (8-13Hz) event-related desynchronization (ERD) occurring from 600 to 900ms following the onset of a critical sentence at which social situational contexts activated ironic representation. We found that the right anterior temporal lobe, which is involved in processing social knowledge and evaluating others' intentions, exhibited stronger alpha ERD following an ironic statement than following a literal statement. We also found that alpha power in the left anterior temporal lobe correlated with the participants' communication abilities. These results elucidate the temporospatial neural mechanisms of language comprehension in social contexts, including non-literal processing.
journal_name
Brain Langjournal_title
Brain and languageauthors
Akimoto Y,Takahashi H,Gunji A,Kaneko Y,Asano M,Matsuo J,Ota M,Kunugi H,Hanakawa T,Mazuka R,Kamio Ydoi
10.1016/j.bandl.2017.09.002subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2017-12-01 00:00:00pages
42-46eissn
0093-934Xissn
1090-2155pii
S0093-934X(17)30027-5journal_volume
175pub_type
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