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The comprehension elaboration theory of humor claims that the elicitation of humor can be segregated into two stages, comprehension and elaboration.
However, such studies have not been able to segregate the comprehension and elaboration stages.
The present study was designed to differentiate the respective brain areas corresponding to comprehension and elaboration with an additional condition, garden path sentences.
Rhetorical relations can serve communicative goals such as concept comprehension (e.g., via elaboration of a definition), belief (via presentation of evidence), or causal understanding (e.g., via a volitional result relation, as in (6.1)), and in this way tighten the connection between content planning and communicative goals.
Cognition involves the skills to encode and recall information: rehearsal, elaboration, organization, and comprehension-monitoring learning strategies (Weinstein and Mayer, 1985); and the processes of problem solving and critical thinking (Schraw et al., 2006).
Investigations carried out on the impact of simplification compared to elaboration on aural input comprehension and retention has indicated that elaboration devices make the contribution to the improved comprehension more than linguistically simplified input (Chaudron 1983).
Some other studies (e.g., Kim 1996; Urano 2000) have examined the effect of input flooding along with input elaboration on second language comprehension and vocabulary acquisition.
Speech comprehension, for example, likely involves the successive elaboration of myriad representations (of various types: phonological, lexical, syntactic, etc). of the stimulus, but of these only the final product the representation of the meaning of what was said is consciously available (at best).
Comprehension includes detection and resolution of incongruity, and elaboration involves inducement of the experience of amusement.
Xia Zhentao (1996b: 405) especially indicates his elaboration of the notions of the potential for comprehension (xin zhi shenming 心之神明), elucidation, exposure and illumination (zhao 照).
Our findings suggest a three-stage neural circuit model of verbal humor processing: incongruity detection and incongruity resolution during humor comprehension and inducement of the feeling of amusement during humor elaboration.
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