Journal of Neurolinguistics

auditory stimuli for fMRI experiment into asymmetric binary structure in language and rhythm gram-eng is grammatical English rand-eng is random English jab-gram is jabberwocky English with grammatical morphemes jab-ungram is jabberwocky English without grammatical morphemes basic-rhy is basic rhythm with a metronomic pulse patt-rhy is patterned rhythm rand-rhy is random ordered pulses without a structured rhythm

We investigated the neurocognitive processes behind the asymmetry of affect observed in irony understanding, where ironic criticism is more easily understood than ironic praise. We recorded the ERPs of participants while they listened to positive (e.g., “These children are always smiling”) or negative (e.g., “His son is very unfortunate”) remarks pronounced with a sincere or ironic prosody. Participants had to decide whether or not the speaker was sincere. Two ERP components were of interest: the N400 and the P600

Raw data from implicit tasks used with a deep dyslexic.

1. There were totally 20 subjects, and two subjects (13th and 20th) were deleted due to too much artifacts. 2. There were four versions of experimental sentences, and with each version being listened to by five subjects. version01(subject 1-5); version01(subject 6-10); version03(subject 11-15); version01(subject 16-20). 3. Markers of each experimental conditons: '11' & '21' indicate 'regular-rhythm, semantic congruent'; '12' & '22' indicate 'regular-rhythm, semantic incongruent'; '13' & '23' indicate 'irregular-rhythm, semantic congruent'; '14' & '24' indicate 'irregular-rhythm, semantic incongruent'.

Data used for the aggregate analyses of treatment effects. When the same tasks were successively considered as near transfer and control measures in case of multiple treatments, the data reflect differential effect sizes ensuring a net estimation of the treatment effects for each type of measure.