Right hemisphere activation of joke-related information: An event-related brain potential study

Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 494-506

  Coulson, Seana ^a,b   Wu, Ying Choon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SEMANTICS; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; REACTION TIME; WIT AND HUMOR;

EID: 14944381013     PISSN: 0898929X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1162/0898929053279568     Document Type: Article

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