This chapter reviews the electrophysiological research on four most commonly used
figurative language types: metaphor, idioms, irony, and jokes. For metaphor, we focused on …

Humor research is supposed to predict whether something is funny. According to its theories
and observations, amusement should be predictable based on a wide variety of variables …

As a high-demanding mental activity with both cognitive and emotional factors, verbal-humor
processing consumes more attentional resources than non-humor processing, which has …

Previous research has focused on the event-related potential of the old/new effect, but the
mechanism for cognitive conflict and subsequent integration processing both induced by …

Semantic humour involves a deviation from lexico-semantic rules that introduces ambiguity
into interpretation of a situation. The left Inferior Frontal Gyrus (IFG) has been implicated in …

As a high-demanding cognitive mental activity, verbal-humor processing consumes more
attentional resources than non-humor processing, which has been demonstrated by several …

L'interesse scientifico per ciò che riguarda il ruolo dell'umorismo nella promozione del
benessere psicologico è fortemente aumentato negli ultimi 40 anni, evidenziando come chi …

This study identified changes in cortical hemodynamic activity associated with laughter
perception and humor appreciation. The prefrontal cortex (PFC) has been linked to the …