Listening to Limericks: a pupillometry investigation of perceivers' expectancy.
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SUBMITTER: Scheepers C
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3781151 | biostudies-literature | 2013
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Listening to Limericks: a pupillometry investigation of perceivers' expectancy.
Scheepers Christoph C Mohr Sibylle S Fischer Martin H MH Roberts Andrew M AM
PloS one 20130923 9
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 show ...[more]
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