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. 2010 Dec 17;11(1):113–130. doi: 10.3758/s13415-010-0017-7

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Group average (N = 10) dynamic statistical parametric maps (dSPMs) of the overall activity estimated at successive latency windows to funny, congruous, and incongruous endings. All three types are initially processed by the same left-lateralized ventral processing stream that has been observed in other studies of word processing. Left-lateralized temporo-prefrontal areas contribute to the initial lexical–semantic access embodied by the N400m process, which is largest to incongruous endings (blue arrow). Subsequently, the left (green arrows) and right (red arrow) prefrontal areas are additionally engaged after ~700 ms, especially to funny punch lines as the “twist” is integrated with the preceding context