Right hemisphere involvement for pun processing – Effects of idiom decomposition

Publication date: August 2019Source: Journal of Neurolinguistics, Volume 51Author(s): Kremena Koleva, Mark Mon-Williams, Ekaterini KlepousniotouAbstractThe present study investigated hemispheric processing of puns involving decomposable idioms (e.g. Old skiers never die, they just go downhill) and non-decomposable ones (e.g., Old cleaners never die, they just bite the dust) using a divided visual field paradigm. In two cross-modal priming experiments, participants listened to puns and made lexical decisions for targets presented either in the left or right visual fields. To investigate hemispheric asymmetries at different processing stages (early vs. late), the prime-target inter-stimulus interval was 0 ms in Experiment 1 and was increased to 750 ms in Experiment 2. The results from bo...

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