ABSTRACT Defining defaultness in terms of an unconditional, automatic response to a stimulus allows the Defaultness Hypothesis to predict the speed superiority of default over nondefault counterparts. Here we examined the relative contribution of the cerebral hemispheres to the processing of default versus nondefault interpretations (of Hebrew items). Participants performed a lexical decision task on lateralized probes (messy) related to the default/nondefault sarcastic interpretation of their preceding negative/affirmative targets (He is/He is not the most organized student). Consistent with the Defaultness Hypothesis, probes were easier to identify in the default-negative than in the nondefault-affirmative condition. However, this superiority was more pronounced in the left hemisphere (LH) than in the right hemisphere. In particular, whereas both hemispheres reflected the superiority of default negative sarcasm over nondefault affirmative sarcasm when both targets were embedded in equally strong sarcastic contexts (Experiment 2), only the LH exhibited this very same superiority when the negatives and affirmatives were presented in isolation (Experiment 1).

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关于违约的优越性：处理消极和积极讽刺的半球视角

摘要 根据对刺激的无条件、自动反应来定义违约允许违约假设预测违约相对于非违约对应物的速度优势。在这里，我们检查了大脑半球对处理默认与非默认解释（希伯来语项目）的相对贡献。参与者对与他们之前的否定/肯定目标的默认/非默认讽刺解释相关的横向探针（凌乱）执行词汇决策任务（他是/他不是最有组织的学生）。与默认假设一致，在默认否定条件下比在非默认肯定条件下更容易识别探针。然而，这种优势在左半球 (LH) 比在右半球更为明显。特别是，