TY  - JOUR
A1  - Scheepers, Christoph
A1  - Mohr, Sibylle
A1  - Fischer, Martin H.
A1  - Roberts, Andrew M.
T1  - Listening to Limericks -  A Pupillometry Investigation of Perceivers' Expectancy
JF  - PLoS one
N2  - What features of a poem make it captivating, and which cognitive mechanisms are sensitive to these features? We addressed these questions experimentally by measuring pupillary responses of 40 participants who listened to a series of Limericks. The Limericks ended with either a semantic, syntactic, rhyme or metric violation. Compared to a control condition without violations, only the rhyme violation condition induced a reliable pupillary response. An anomaly-rating study on the same stimuli showed that all violations were reliably detectable relative to the control condition, but the anomaly induced by rhyme violations was perceived as most severe. Together, our data suggest that rhyme violations in Limericks may induce an emotional response beyond mere anomaly detection.
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0074986
SN  - 1932-6203
VL  - 8
IS  - 9
PB  - PLoS
CY  - San Fransisco
ER  -