A novel task to evaluate irony comprehension and its essential elements in Spanish speakers.

ABSTRACT: An ironic statement transmits the opposite meaning to its literal counterpart and is one of the most complex communicative acts. Thus, it has been proposed to be a good indicator of social communication ability. Prosody and facial expression are two crucial paralinguistic cues that can facilitate the understanding of ironic statements. The primary aim of this study was to create and evaluate a task of irony identification that could be used in neuroimaging studies. We independently evaluated three cues, contextual discrepancy, prosody and facial expression, and selected the best cue that would lead participants in fMRI studies to identify a stimulus as ironic in a reliable way. This process included the design, selection, and comparison of the three cues, all of which have been previously

SUBMITTER: Valles-Capetillo E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9724626 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature