Chang Chia-Yueh, Chan Yu-Chen, Chen Hsueh-Chih
Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei 10610, Taiwan.
Department of Educational Psychology and Counseling, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 300043, Taiwan.
Brain Sci. 2023 Feb 27;13(3):417. doi: 10.3390/brainsci13030417.
The four-stage model comprises the expectation, incongruity, resolution, and elaboration stages of humor processing. In previous studies, most researchers used two-element jokes (setup and punch line) as stimuli, based on experimental methods, to explore the humor process. By contrast, the present study used a humor corpus with the novelty of three-element verbal jokes to perform direct separation from the material and clarify the humor processes. In this study, we used three-element verbal jokes and nonjokes, and we conducted a repeated-measures analysis of variance with a 3 × 2 two-way within-subject design. In humor processing, the posterior insula and middle frontal gyrus were mainly activated in the expectation; the middle temporal gyrus and the medial frontal gyrus in the incongruity; the inferior frontal gyri, superior frontal gyrus, and inferior parietal lobule in the resolution; and the ventromedial prefrontal cortex, amygdala, anterior insula, nucleus accumbens, and midbrain in the elaboration. The contributions of this study lie in its use of a humor corpus with the novelty of self-compiled three-element jokes, which not only successfully verified the models established in previous studies but added the expectation to the model; thus, this study separated the expectation and incongruity processes, making humor processing more complete.
四阶段模型包括幽默加工的预期、不协调、解决和 elaboration 阶段。在以往的研究中，大多数研究者基于实验方法，使用二元笑话（铺垫和笑点）作为刺激来探究幽默加工过程。相比之下，本研究使用了具有新颖性的三元文字笑话语料库，以便从材料中直接分离并阐明幽默加工过程。在本研究中，我们使用了三元文字笑话和非笑话，并采用 3×2 两因素被试内设计进行重复测量方差分析。在幽默加工过程中，后岛叶和额中回在预期阶段主要被激活；颞中回和额内侧回在不协调阶段被激活；额下回、额上回和顶下小叶在解决阶段被激活；腹内侧前额叶皮层、杏仁核、前岛叶、伏隔核和中脑在 elaboration 阶段被激活。本研究的贡献在于使用了自编的具有新颖性的三元笑话语料库，这不仅成功验证了以往研究中建立的模型，还在模型中增加了预期阶段；因此，本研究分离了预期和不协调过程，使幽默加工更加完整。
