Listening to Limericks - A Pupillometry Investigation of Perceivers' Expectancy
- 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.
| Verfasserangaben: | Christoph Scheepers, Sibylle Mohr, Martin H. FischerORCiDGND, Andrew M. Roberts |
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| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0074986 |
| ISSN: | 1932-6203 |
| Titel des übergeordneten Werks (Englisch): | PLoS one |
| Verlag: | PLoS |
| Verlagsort: | San Fransisco |
| Publikationstyp: | Wissenschaftlicher Artikel |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Jahr der Erstveröffentlichung: | 2013 |
| Erscheinungsjahr: | 2013 |
| Datum der Freischaltung: | 26.03.2017 |
| Band: | 8 |
| Ausgabe: | 9 |
| Seitenanzahl: | 8 |
| Fördernde Institution: | School of Humanities at the University of Dundee |
| Organisationseinheiten: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften |
| Peer Review: | Referiert |
| Publikationsweg: | Open Access |
| Name der Einrichtung zum Zeitpunkt der Publikation: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Exzellenzbereich Kognitionswissenschaften |
