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Humor Perception: The Contribution Of Cognitive Factors, Erin Baldwin
Humor Perception: The Contribution Of Cognitive Factors, Erin Baldwin
Psychology Dissertations
Most of the extant humor research has focused on humor comprehension with only a few studies investigating humor appreciation as a separate construct. The purpose of this investigation was to determine the relation between humor and underlying cognitive processes. Literature on brain injured individuals has indicated that working memory, verbal and visual-spatial reasoning, cognitive flexibility, and concept formation are related to performance on comprehension tests of humor. In this study, cognitive processes underlying both verbal and nonverbal humor were investigated in a sample of healthy young adults. There is evidence that semantic and phonological humor are associated with different neural …
Semantic, Executive, And Visuospatial Abilities In Mathematical Reasoning Of Referred College Students, Robin Morris, Mary K. Morris, Paul Cirino
Semantic, Executive, And Visuospatial Abilities In Mathematical Reasoning Of Referred College Students, Robin Morris, Mary K. Morris, Paul Cirino
Psychology Faculty Publications
Semantic retrieval (SR) and executive-procedural (EP), but not visuospatial (VS) skills, have been found to be uniquely predictive of mathematical calculation skills in a sample of clinically referred college students. This study set out to cross-validate these results in an independent sample of clinically referred college students (N = 337) as well as extend them by examination of the contributions of these cognitive domains to math reasoning skills. Results indicate that these cognitive domains were able to predict 30% of the vari- ance in calculation skills and 50% of the variance in math reasoning; however, in both cases, only the …