Neurology Department, Maison-Blanche Hospital, Reims, France.
Laboratoire Mémoire Cerveau et Cognition (UR 7536), University Paris Cité, Boulogne-Billancourt, France.
Cogn Emot. 2023 Aug-Sep;37(5):1014-1022. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2023.2217347. Epub 2023 May 30.
The model of humour comprehension-elaboration postulates that the feeling of amusement follows serially upon humour comprehension. Yet, in clinical practice, patients with impaired humour comprehension may show typical happy facial expressions, suggesting a preservation of amusement feeling. The aim of the present study was to test the hypothesis of a potential implicit processing pathway to add to the explicit pathway described in the model. Twenty healthy participants and two patients with cerebral tumour (LM and JM) completed a task of humour judgment during which their face was filmed. Two independent blinded raters quantified the happy facial expressions produced. The accuracy scores for humour judgment reflected humour comprehension while the number of happy facial expressions assessed amusement feeling. Patients' results showed a case contrast. In accordance with the cognitive model of humour comprehension, JM's scores for humour comprehension were not statistically different from those of the control group; however, he presented impaired facial expressions. LM, on the contrary, showed typical happy facial expressions despite humour comprehension deficits. This profile suggests the existence of a potential implicit pathway to feelings of amusement. A revision of the cognitive model is proposed by adding a potential implicit processing pathway to the explicit one already described.
幽默理解-阐释模型假设，愉悦感是在幽默理解之后依次产生的。然而，在临床实践中，幽默理解受损的患者可能会表现出典型的快乐面部表情，这表明他们的愉悦感得以保留。本研究的目的是检验潜在的内隐处理途径的假设，以补充模型中描述的外显途径。20 名健康参与者和 2 名脑肿瘤患者（LM 和 JM）完成了一项幽默判断任务，在此期间拍摄了他们的面部。两名独立的盲评者对产生的快乐面部表情进行了量化。幽默判断的准确性得分反映了幽默理解，而快乐面部表情的数量则评估了愉悦感。患者的结果呈现出病例对比。与幽默理解的认知模型一致，JM 的幽默理解得分与对照组没有统计学差异；然而，他的面部表情受损。相反，LM 尽管存在幽默理解缺陷，但却表现出典型的快乐面部表情。这种表现提示可能存在一种愉悦感的潜在内隐途径。该认知模型通过增加一个潜在的内隐处理途径进行了修正，以补充已经描述的外显处理途径。
