A strong wink between verbal and emoji-based irony: How the brain processes ironic emojis during language comprehension.

Emojis are ideograms that are becoming ubiquitous in digital communication. However, no research has yet investigated how humans process semantic and pragmatic content of emojis in real time. We investigated neural responses to irony-producing emojis, the question being whether emoji-generated irony...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Benjamin Weissman, Darren Tanner
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2018-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC6093662?pdf=render