Comprehensive research on the factors which play a role in listener's feeling evoked by irony.

本研究采用问卷调查和功能磁共振成像实验，探讨了反语诱发听者情感的影响因素。结果表明，当一个笑话或幽默的讽刺被评价为积极的礼貌，由于听者对幽默的态度或他们与扬声器开玩笑的关系，反讽引起积极的感情。在fMRI实验中，在背外侧前额叶皮层发现了笑话调制活动的程度，这表明执行功能可能在笑话或讽刺的识别中起重要作用。

This study investigated the factors which play a role in listener's feeling evoked by irony, using questionnaire surveys and an fMRI experiment. Results suggested that irony evoked positive feelings when a joke or the humor of irony were evaluated as positive politeness by the listener due to the listener's attitude toward humor or their joking relationship with the speaker. In the fMRI experiment, the degree of joking-modulated activity was found in the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex, suggesting that executive function may play an important role in recognition of joking of irony.