Cognitive Perspectives on Humor Comprehension after Brain Injury

Brownell, Hiram; Stringfellow, Andrew

doi:10.1007/0-306-46898-0_15

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“…Wong and Kumfor (2022) on the other hand show that patients with right temporal variant frontotemporal dementia (rtvFTD) may laugh at things that are not funny to others. Similar behavior is observed in patients with right hemisphere damage (Brownell & Stringfellow, 2002) that can lead to dementia.…”

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“…Alternatively, laughing at things that are not funny to others can be attributed to some types of dementia or neurological disorder, e.g. right temporal variant frontotemporal dementia (rtvFTD) (Wong & Kumfor, 2022), right hemisphere damage (Brownell & Stringfellow, 2002), behavioral variant frontotemporal dementia (bvFTD), or semantic dementia (SD) (Clark et al, 2015). Thirdly, it is worth considering a social factor, such as interactions with students that the patients really enjoyed.…”

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Who does not Find Metaphors Funny? Humor Preferences in Geriatric Patients

Kmita¹,

Lindner²,

Libura³

2022

Commun Sci Disord

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Objectives: Humor plays an important role throughout life, including old age. However, appreciating and understanding humor may be hindered due to dementia and late-life depression, two common old age-related diseases. Still little is known about humor preferences among the elderly diagnosed with dementia, depression or both disorders. This study aims to explore humor preferences in elderly participants with those disorders and their influence on the perceived funniness of more and less cognitively challenging verbal jokes.Methods: A total of 36 elderly participants and 39 students (representing a control group) rated 20 humorous and 20 non-humorous examples. To test the differences in the funniness rating between the elderly participants and the control group, both Welch’s <i>t</i>-test and <i>U</i> Mann-Whitney test were used, accompanied with bootstrapped confidence intervals.Results: The study reveals that the elderly participants found both humorous and non-humorous examples funnier than the control group. Elderly participants rated two types higher than the control group: the visual error-based jokes and non-visual metaphor-based jokes. The patients with a single disorder (cognitive disorder or depression) rated the funniness of the examples highest. Out of all participants with a single disorder, those with cognitive disorder rated the examples slightly higher than those with depression.Conclusion: Elderly participants are able to enjoy simple and familiar humor. While the perceived funniness of those with a single disorder may be a result of them using humor as a coping mechanism, such a mechanism no longer works in the case of coexisting dementia and depression.

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Section: Humor In Depression and Dementiasupporting

confidence: 71%

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Who does not Find Metaphors Funny? Humor Preferences in Geriatric Patients

Kmita¹,

Lindner²,

Libura³

2022

Commun Sci Disord

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Weisfeld,

Cronin Weisfeld

2024

The Oxford Handbook of Evolution and the Emotions

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Humor has been studied from an evolutionary point of view beginning with Darwin. Some evolutionary theorists have regarded humor as a universal emotion. With its distinct affect and expression, humor meets most criteria for having an evolved basis. The expression of laughter has homologues in other primates and, as in children, is observed during tickling and other social play. This chapter proposes a functional theory of laughter that attempts to account for the fitness benefits for recipient and producer of humor. The recipient gains information and practice that are of later utility in social encounters. Alternative functional explanations for humor are reviewed, but these often feature group selection ideas and fail to account for the fitness value for the humorist. Humor appreciation is correlated with health, but mainly because healthy people are less anxious and hence disposed to appreciate jokes.

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Cognitive Perspectives on Humor Comprehension after Brain Injury

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Who does not Find Metaphors Funny? Humor Preferences in Geriatric Patients

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