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  • Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Poetry Analysis

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  • Pupillary responses are linked to cognitive and emotional processing.
  • Japanese haiku and senryu offer unique poetic structures for studying linguistic responses.
  • Understanding emotional responses to poetry can inform mental health insights.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate pupillary responses to aesthetic poetry (haiku) and comic poetry (senryu).
  • To compare these responses to non-poetry control stimuli with similar rhythm patterns.
  • To explore the temporal dynamics of arousal elicited by different poetic forms.

Main Methods:

  • Pupil diameters were recorded from native Japanese speakers.
  • Participants listened to haiku, senryu, and non-poetry control stimuli.
  • Stimuli were designed to isolate poetic elements from rhythmic patterns.

Main Results:

  • Comic poetry (CP) elicited significantly greater pupil dilation than non-poetry (NP) in an early time window.
  • Aesthetic poetry (AP) also evoked larger pupil dilation than NP, but with a longer latency.
  • These findings suggest differential arousal patterns for humorous versus aesthetic language.

Conclusions:

  • Poetic language, specifically haiku and senryu, elicits measurable pupillary dilation.
  • Comic poetry induces rapid arousal, while aesthetic poetry elicits slower, intense arousal.
  • Pupillometry is a viable tool for assessing sympathetic activation in response to poetic language.