Cognitive humor processing: Different logical mechanisms in nonverbal cartoons - An fMRI study

Social Neuroscience

Volumn 3, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 125-140

  Samson, Andrea C ^a   Zysset, Stefan ^b,c   Huber, Oswald ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FRIBOURG   (Switzerland)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE   (Germany)

^c NordicNeuroLab   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFFECT; ART; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; COGNITION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMOR; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROIMAGING; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEMANTICS; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CARTOONS AS TOPIC; COGNITION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NERVE NET; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PHOTIC STIMULATION; WIT AND HUMOR AS TOPIC;

EID: 50249117126     PISSN: 17470919     EISSN: 17470927     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17470910701745858     Document Type: Article

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