The Neural Genesis of a Joke
Unlike passive humor appreciation, the neural correlates of real-time humor creation have been unexplored. As a case study for creativity, humor creation uniquely affords a reliable assessment of a creative product’s quality, subjects’ expertise, and…
Reorienting categories as a members’ phenomena
Keynote: A Revolution Against Big-Brother Social Networks
With the widespread adoption of proprietary social networks like Facebook and mobile chat platforms like Wechat, we may be heading to a future where all our communication are monetized and our online transactions are mediated…
Social Computing (Asia)
In the Social Computing Group of Microsoft Research Asia (MSRA), we engage in interdisciplinary research which intersects computer science with social science, psychology and cognitive science. Based on large scale human behavioral data on various…