Humor Comprehension

We explored humor comprehension in the brain by examining two competing hypotheses: the direct-access view, which posits immediate understanding of jokes, and the indirect-access view, suggesting a slower re-analysis process. Using a cross-modal masked priming paradigm, our results indicated that humor processing may require pragmatic reanalysis, highlighting the time-sensitive nature of verbal jokes and the need for refined measurements in future studies.

Thesis:

2023      Aymée Bray Le Métayer

                “Accessing verbal humour: An investigation of the time course of joke 

processing”