Getting it: Human event-related brain response to jokes in good and poor comprehenders

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 316, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 71-74

  Coulson, Seana ^a,b   Kutas, Marta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Cognitive Science 0515 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Event related potentials; Humor; Jokes; Language

Indexed keywords

APTITUDE; ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSE MECHANISM; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMOR; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING;

EID: 0035910028     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(01)02387-4     Document Type: Article

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