Spontaneous humor among right hemisphere stroke survivors.
Author: Heath RL, Blonder LX.
Source:
Brain and Language, 93(3), 267-276.
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.