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Surprise but not coherence: Sensitivity to verbal humor in right-hemisphere patients☆
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This finding suggests that right-hemisphere patients have difficulty in integrating content across parts of a narrative and confirms the psychological reality of the proposed distinction between the surprise and coherence elements of humor processing.About:
This article is published in Brain and Language.The article was published on 1983-01-01. It has received 284 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Surprise & Joke.read more
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An advanced test of theory of mind: understanding of story characters' thoughts and feelings by able autistic, mentally handicapped, and normal children and adults.
TL;DR: Autistic subjects were impaired at providing context-appropriate mental state explanations for the story characters' nonliteral utterances, compared to normal and mentally handicapped controls.
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Thinking ahead: The role and roots of prediction in language comprehension.
TL;DR: Results suggest that, when it can, the brain uses context to predict features of likely upcoming items, and that left hemisphere language processing seems to be oriented toward prediction and the use of top-down cues, whereas right hemisphere comprehension is more bottom-up, biased toward the veridical maintenance of information.
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Summation priming and coarse semantic coding in the right hemisphere
Mark Beeman,Rhonda B. Friedman,Jordan Grafman,Enrique Perez,Sherri Diamond,Miriam Beadle Lindsay +5 more
TL;DR: The authors found that the RH processes words with relatively coarser coding than the LH, a conclusion consistent with a recent suggestion that RH coarsely codes visual input (Kosslyn, Chabris, Marsolek, & Koenig, 1992).
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Humor modulates the mesolimbic reward centers.
TL;DR: It is demonstrated that humor modulates activity in several cortical regions, and new evidence is presented that humor engages a network of subcortical regions including the nucleus accumbens, a key component of the mesolimbic dopaminergic reward system.
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Semantic integration in reading: engagement of the right hemisphere during discourse processing.
TL;DR: It is suggested that the right middle temporal regions of both cerebral hemispheres may be especially important for integrative processes needed to achieve global coherence during discourse processing.
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Experimental Design: Procedures for the Behavioral Sciences
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Experimental Design: Procedures for the Behavioral Sciences
TL;DR: This chapter discusses research strategies and the Control of Nuisance Variables, as well as randomly Randomized Factorial Design with Three or More Treatments and Randomized Block Factorial design, and Confounded Factorial Designs: Designs with Group-Interaction Confounding.
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Psychological status of the script concept.
TL;DR: The authors suggest that there has been growing interest within several subfields of psychology in the schematic nature of mental representations of real-world objects and events, and present a simple form of schema is the "script", embodying knowledge of stereotyped event sequences.
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Emotional behavior and hemispheric side of the lesion.
TL;DR: The depressivecatastrophic reactions of the left brain-damaged patients were found chiefly in subjects with severe aphasia, and appeared generally after repeated failures in verbal communication, and seemed due, as Goldstein argued, to the desperate reaction of the organism, confronted with a task that it cannot face.
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Dominant Language Functions of the Right Hemisphere?: Prosody and Emotional Gesturing
TL;DR: Arguments are given to support the idea that the right or "minor" hemisphere has a dominant role in modulating the affective components of speech.