Social cognition after head injury: Sarcasm and theory of mind
Social cognition after head injury: Sarcasm and theory of mind
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DOI：
10.1016/j.bandl.2004.09.002
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发表时间：
2005-05-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Rule, A
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作者：
Channon, S;Pellijeff, A;Rule, A
闭合性头部损伤（CHI）与日常社交互动中的沟通困难有关。先前的研究报告了对讽刺的理解受损，使用讽刺的言论，其意图与真诚或字面意思相反。在本研究中，CHI参与者使用两种类型的讽刺项目进行评估，这些项目具有直接相反的含义和那些间接的，非字面的，但不直接相反的含义。尽管讽刺材料的类型并不影响表现，但CHI组在理解讽刺与真诚的言论方面差异较差。错误不仅涉及字面解释，而且涉及不正确的非字面解释。心理理论（mentalising）也进行了评估，通过比较人类行为的理解与控制物理事件。CHI组选择性受损的mentalising组件的这项任务，mentalising分数与讽刺的理解。我们的理解受损的讽刺理解后获得性脑损伤的研究结果的影响进行了讨论。(c)2004年爱思唯尔公司All rights reserved.
Closed head injury (CHI) is associated with communication difficulties in everyday social interactions. Previous work has reported impaired comprehension of sarcasm, using sarcastic remarks where the intended meaning is the opposite of the sincere or literal meaning. Participants with CHI in the present study were assessed using two types of sarcastic items, those with a directly opposite meaning and those with an indirect, non-literal but not directly opposite meaning. The CHI group was differentially poorer at comprehending sarcastic versus sincere remarks, although type of sarcastic materials did not influence performance. Errors involved not only literal interpretations, but also incorrect non-literal interpretations. Theory of mind (mentalising) was also assessed by comparing comprehension of human actions with control physical events. The CHI group was selectively impaired on the mentalising component of this task, and mentalising scores correlated with sarcasm comprehension. The implications of the findings for our understanding of impaired sarcastic comprehension after acquired brain injury are discussed. (c) 2004 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.