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, r...

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Main Authors: Christoph Scheepers, Sibylle Mohr, Martin H Fischer, Andrew M Roberts
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3781151?pdf=render