A Neurorhetoric of Incongruity

On the perception of incongruity; a paradigm.

Perceiving, for all its nicety of functioning in the dark room under strict instructions for accuracy, comprises a highly complex series of little understood psychological processes. For under all conditions, perceiving represents a resultant of two complex sets of specifications. One set describes the conditions of stimulation. This is done either in terms of physical measures such as wave len...

Quantifying Humorous Lexical Incongruity

Difficulty Scaling through Incongruity

In this paper we discuss our work on using the incongruity measure from psychological literature to scale the difficulty level of a game online to the capabilities of the human player. Our approach has been implemented in a small game called Glove.

Aesthetic Incongruity Resolution

Vol. XLVIII (April 2011), 393 –402 *Vanessa M. Patrick is Bauer Professor and Associate Professor of Marketing, C.T. Bauer College of Business, University of Houston (e-mail: vpatrick@ uh.edu). Henrik Hagtvedt is Assistant Professor of Marketing, Carroll School of Management, Boston College (e-mail: hagtvedt@bc. edu). Both authors contributed equally to this research. The authors thank seminar ...

Humour and incongruity

The first in aseries of articles on the philosophy of humour and laughter looks at attempts made to explain humour in terms of incongruity.