Segregating the comprehension and elaboration processing of verbal jokes: An fMRI study

NeuroImage

Volumn 61, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 899-906

  Chan, Yu Chen ^a   Chou, Tai Li ^b   Chen, Hsueh Chih ^a   Liang, Keng Chen ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Comprehension; Elaboration; FMRI; Garden path sentence; Humor

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELABORATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HUMOR; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; PARAHIPPOCAMPAL GYRUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REWARD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; SUPERIOR FRONTAL GYRUS; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

ADULT; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; LANGUAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; WIT AND HUMOR AS TOPIC; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84861335107     PISSN: 10538119     EISSN: 10959572     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2012.03.052     Document Type: Article

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