“Yeah, yeah, you are right”: The brain integration of affective, semantic, prosodic and contextual information in irony and sarcasm perception”

Diplôme Master “Yeah, yeah, you are right”: The brain integration of affective, semantic, prosodic and contextual information in irony and sarcasm perception” eng 2025 author Felber Krajden Bruno 870579 director Grandjean Didier Maurice 502006 Section de psychologie (PSICO) <p>Human communication is a complex process that integrates bottom-up sensory information with top down cognitive mechanisms. The perception and integration of social cues, such as emotional prosody and semantics, significantly influence interactions, making their study crucial for understanding human behavior. This study investigates the neural correlates of emotional prosodic and semantic processing, as well as higher-level cognitive functions, including their roles in Theory of Mind (ToM), irony, and sarcasm. Fifty participants underwent functional MRI (fMRI) while listening to audio recordings of interactions between characters in varying situations where the first character introduces a topic (or a context), and the second character makes a statement on the topic. This statement is either literal (when the person means what they said) or non-literal (when the person does not mean what they said). Participants evaluated the statement in different scales: emotional prosody, semantics, irony, sarcasm, and ToM. Results revealed distinct neural activations: the superior temporal gyrus (STG) for prosodic processing, the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) for semantic processing, the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) for ironic perception, and the medial frontal cortex (MFC) for sarcasm processing. ToM-related processing elicited activation in the amygdala (AMY), middle temporal gyrus (MTG), and IFG. These findings provide insights into the neural basis of social cognition and the interplay between emotional and cognitive processes in communication.</p> Dewey 150 Maîtrise universitaire en neurosciences 108 Section de psychologie 71 false 2d51d5d8-bd8d-4f69-8c61-2a533ef75775 Master thesis Restricted Mémoire_BrunoFelberKrajden_10.02.20.pdf 2001950 application/pdf 8247748aeb5c087378e3e46d305913c13dc685783c630c9242a6eb037b152e51 restrictedAccess Faculté de psychologie et des sciences de l'éducation / Section de psychologie

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