Hemispheric processing of sarcastic text

Journal of Neurolinguistics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 466-475

  Briner, Stephen W ^a   Joss, Laura Motyka ^a   Virtue, Sandra ^a  

^a DEPAUL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Divided visual field; Figurative language; Graded Salience Hypothesis; Irony; Pragmatics; Text comprehension

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FACILITATION; FEMALE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PILOT STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESPONSE TIME; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SARCASM; SEMANTICS; TASK PERFORMANCE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VISUAL FIELD; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 79955730245     PISSN: 09116044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneuroling.2011.02.001     Document Type: Article

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