Spontaneous humor among right hemisphere stroke survivors

Robin L. Heath; Lee X. Blonder

doi:10.1016/j.bandl.2004.10.006

Spontaneous humor among right hemisphere stroke survivors

Robin L. Heath
, Lee X. Blonder

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Abstract

We analyzed spontaneous conversational humor production and response among 11 right hemisphere-damaged (RHD) patients, 10 left hemisphere-damaged (LHD) patients, 7 normal controls (NC), and their spouses. RHD patients and their spouses reported a statistically significant decline in the patients' orientation to humor post-stroke. Also, we found a significant positive association between a RHD patient's ability to decode prosody and their self-reported orientation to humor post-stroke.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	267-276
Number of pages	10
Journal	Brain and Language
Volume	93
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bandl.2004.10.006
State	Published - Jun 2005

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
We thank Amy Kirkpatrick, who conducted the interviews, Robert King and Justin Yandell who analyzed the interviews, Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital and University of Kentucky Hospital for permitting us to recruit informants from their facilities, Dr. L. Creed Pettigrew, Dr. Fred Schmitt and the staff of the Stroke Program at the University of Kentucky, and the people of Kentucky who participated in the study. We also thank anonymous reviewers for their comments on our manuscript. The research was supported in part by a grant from University Funds, University of Kentucky, to Dr. Robin Heath and a FIRST Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders to Dr. Lee Blonder (R29NS29082).

Funding

We thank Amy Kirkpatrick, who conducted the interviews, Robert King and Justin Yandell who analyzed the interviews, Cardinal Hill Rehabilitation Hospital and University of Kentucky Hospital for permitting us to recruit informants from their facilities, Dr. L. Creed Pettigrew, Dr. Fred Schmitt and the staff of the Stroke Program at the University of Kentucky, and the people of Kentucky who participated in the study. We also thank anonymous reviewers for their comments on our manuscript. The research was supported in part by a grant from University Funds, University of Kentucky, to Dr. Robin Heath and a FIRST Award from the National Institute of Neurological Disorders to Dr. Lee Blonder (R29NS29082).

Funders	Funder number
University of Kentucky Research Funds
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke	R29NS029082
University of Kentucky

Keywords

Humor
Laterality
Right hemisphere

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Language and Linguistics
Linguistics and Language
Cognitive Neuroscience
Speech and Hearing

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