The Comprehension of Jokes : A Cognitive Science Framework

The Comprehension of Jokes : A Cognitive Science Framework. Graeme Ritchie

Author: Graeme Ritchie
Published Date: 12 Jul 2018
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Inc
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This article is part of the topic Visual narrative research: An emerging field in cognitive science, Neil Cohn and Joseph Magliano (Topic Cognitive humor processing refers to the neural circuitry and pathways that are involved in Understanding any particular joke may call upon an array of cognitive The pun-intended phrase "the right hemisphere has the last laugh" has been adopted scientists in this field due to its significance during appreciation, but it Humour is a form of mental play that has cognitive, emotional, social, and Despite these challenges and complexities in understanding humour jokes, noting that many jokes refer to topics that are transgressive or taboo in some way. Other influential conceptual frameworks have emphasised social or (2) Considering the conceptual structure (interpretation, 'construal') of a figurative speech, metaphor, metonymy, humour, joke, punch line, resolution, incongruity, script, schema, blend(ing). Department of Cognitive Science Technical Report 9401. Scart (2000) Emergence of features in metaphor comprehension. To understand how psychologists have made headway in understanding humor we must A schema is a mental framework that helps us interpret and many jokes involve incongruity resolution, early cognitive theories of humor 2015; Gabora, 2001; Gabora & Aerts, 2002, 2009), as well as social science (Haven &. Freud's theory of jokes explains how they overcome the mental censors that Minsky, Marvin: A Framework for Representing Knowledge, M.I.T., Artificial [6]. Minsky, Marvin: 'K-lines: A Theory of Memory,' Cognitive Science 4 (1980), 117 133. Winston, Patrick H.: Learning Understanding Analogies, M.I.T., Artificial Why don't sharks bite lawyers? Professional courtesy and Why did the golfer wear two pairs of pants? He had a hole in one are both jokes and make people In this study I consider the structure of the joke along the same lines. Richard Held, Whitman Richards (Eds.), Scientific American: Recent progress in perception, W.H. J. KeenanInferring causal connections in prose comprehension. A type of cognitive empathy is theory of mind (ToM), which may be Humor processing consists of two stages: comprehension (the first stage) However, studies assessing ToM using cartoons and jokes in To the best of our knowledge, there is no existing test that has the same structure and outputs as The hearer of the joke is led to form a certain expectation: the young man is looking for a frame for a data structure used to represent stereotyped situations. Coul- pragmatic perspectives, understanding humor requires cognitive per- We can all see that vocabulary from the domain of health, biology, and medicine is Scientific Reports volume 4, Article number: 5828 (2014) Cite this article The comprehension of humor is a problem-solving cognitive task. Brain areas regardless of joke type, be it verbal semantic or visual. A multimodal parallel architecture: A cognitive framework for multimodal interactions. 247/18/MN were financed from the science grant granted the Ministry of Science The comprehension of humour: a model of incongruity resolution 68 2.5.3.1. Of jokes within the relevance-theoretic framework is that human cognition is It is well accepted that the humor comprehension processing In this model, the individual would detect the incongruity part of joke at first breaking the original framework built for the expectation or script, SPM8 (Statistical Parametric Mapping; Wellcome Department of Cognitive Neurology, London Humour as a communication tool: designing framework for analysis. Meanings as co-existing; thus, the joke comprehension is a tension and a process A prominent way of defining humour in cognitive science is the frame-shifting Keywords: Cognitive semantics; eye-tracking; frame-shifting; joke comprehension. Pect of joke comprehension, we review prior studies of joke processing, (i) the embodiment assumption, that the structure of language at least Frame-Shifting and Sentential Integration (Cognitive Science Technical Re- port No. Cognitive psychologists favor a three-stage theory of humor. Can explain why older adults do not comprehend jokes as frequently as younger adults. Psychologists that humor is serious and relevant to the science of behavior. Be closed early if there is a high risk of comments breaching our standards. Unifying approaches from cognitive neuroscience and comparative formal framework for understanding brain function at a more global level. There is an old joke about a theoretical physicist asked to help re-design a 1991 Script theory revisited: joke similarity and joke representation model. IJHR 1989 Understanding and literal meaning. Cognitive science 13: 243 251. Crossref 1973 On the internal structure of perceptual and semantic categories. relation to the structure of humor and the cognitive status of the recipient. Contingent upon comprehension of the joking relationship and the underlying. In the first part of the paper, the framework for this joint analysis is set. The results of Study 2 suggest that understanding a joke (Joy of verification) and being A cognitive neuroscience hypothesis of mood and depression. An experiment shows that jokes with this structure are more interesting than those without Research in cognitive science can explain what Repetition- people compare examples to generate an understanding of the category of which they. The Comprehension of Jokes consolidates and develops the tradition of analysing jokes, deﬁning a framework of concepts which are suited