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| Title |
The Neural Correlates of Humor Creativity
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, November 2016
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| DOI | 10.3389/fnhum.2016.00597 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Ori Amir, Irving Biederman |
| Abstract |
Unlike passive humor appreciation, the neural correlates of real-time humor creation have been unexplored. As a case study for creativity, humor generation uniquely affords a reliable assessment of a creative product's quality with a clear and relatively rapid beginning and end, rendering it amenable to neuroimaging that has the potential for reflecting individual differences in expertise. Professional and amateur "improv" comedians and controls viewed New Yorker cartoon drawings while being scanned. For each drawing, they were instructed to generate either a humorous or a mundane caption. Greater comedic experience was associated with decreased activation in the striatum and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC), but increased activation in temporal association regions (TMP). Less experienced comedians manifested greater activation of mPFC, reflecting their deliberate search through TMP association space. Professionals, by contrast, tend to reap the fruits of their spontaneous associations with reduced reliance on top-down guided search. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 33 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 6 | 18% |
| United Kingdom | 4 | 12% |
| Canada | 2 | 6% |
| Brazil | 1 | 3% |
| France | 1 | 3% |
| Austria | 1 | 3% |
| Mexico | 1 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |
| Japan | 1 | 3% |
| Other | 1 | 3% |
| Unknown | 14 | 42% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 26 | 79% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 4 | 12% |
| Scientists | 3 | 9% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 106 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Finland | 1 | <1% |
| United States | 1 | <1% |
| Luxembourg | 1 | <1% |
| South Africa | 1 | <1% |
| Unknown | 102 | 96% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 17 | 16% |
| Student > Master | 14 | 13% |
| Student > Bachelor | 13 | 12% |
| Researcher | 10 | 9% |
| Other | 8 | 8% |
| Other | 24 | 23% |
| Unknown | 20 | 19% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 30 | 28% |
| Neuroscience | 9 | 8% |
| Social Sciences | 8 | 8% |
| Computer Science | 6 | 6% |
| Arts and Humanities | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 21 | 20% |
| Unknown | 26 | 25% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 94. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 February 2023.
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#191
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#9,238
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#10
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