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.
| Author details: | 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 |
| Title of parent work (English): | PLoS one |
| Publisher: | PLoS |
| Place of publishing: | San Fransisco |
| Publication type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Year of first publication: | 2013 |
| Publication year: | 2013 |
| Release date: | 2017/03/26 |
| Volume: | 8 |
| Issue: | 9 |
| Number of pages: | 8 |
| Funding institution: | School of Humanities at the University of Dundee |
| Organizational units: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Strukturbereich Kognitionswissenschaften |
| Peer review: | Referiert |
| Publishing method: | Open Access |
| Institution name at the time of the publication: | Humanwissenschaftliche Fakultät / Exzellenzbereich Kognitionswissenschaften |
