Getting a joke: The time course of meaning activation in verbal humor

Journal of Pragmatics

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1431-1449

  Vaid, Jyotsna ^a   Hull, Rachel ^a   Heredia, Roberto ^b   Gerkens, David ^a   Martinez, Francisco ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A M INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ambiguity; Humor; Incongruity; Jokes; Time course

Indexed keywords

EID: 0038037761     PISSN: 03782166     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0378-2166(02)00184-4     Document Type: Article

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