Visual narrative comprehension: Universal or not? [PDF]
Psychon Bull Rev, 2020 AbstractVisual narratives of sequential images – as found in comics, picture stories, and storyboards – are often thought to provide a fairly universal and transparent message that requires minimal learning to decode. This perceived transparency has led to frequent use of sequential images as experimental stimuli in the cognitive and psychological ...
Cohn N.
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Construction or updating? Event model processes during visual narrative comprehension. [PDF]
Psychon Bull RevThe plot of a narrative is represented in the form of event models in working memory. Because only parts of the plot are actually presented and information is continually changing, comprehenders have to infer a good portion of a narrative and keep their ...
Brich IR, Papenmeier F, Huff M, Merkt M.
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Individual differences in the neural dynamics of visual narrative comprehension: The effects of proficiency and age of acquisition. [PDF]
Psychon Bull Rev, 2023 Understanding visual narrative sequences, as found in comics, is known to recruit similar cognitive mechanisms to verbal language. As measured by event-related potentials (ERPs), these manifest as initial negativities (N400, LAN) and subsequent ...
Coderre EL, Cohn N.
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Sense of belonging within the graduate community of a research-focused STEM department: Quantitative assessment using a visual narrative and item response theory. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2020 It is well-documented that the representation of women and racial/ethnic minorities diminishes at higher levels of academia, particularly in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM).
Stachl CN, Baranger AM.
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Your Brain on Comics: A Cognitive Model of Visual Narrative Comprehension. [PDF]
Top Cogn Sci, 2020 The past decade has seen a rapid growth of cognitive and brain research focused on visual narratives like comics and picture stories. This paper will summarize and integrate this emerging literature into the Parallel Interfacing Narrative‐Semantics Model
Cohn N.
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Editors' Introduction and Review: Visual Narrative Research: An Emerging Field in Cognitive Science. [PDF]
Top Cogn Sci, 2020 Drawn sequences of images are among our oldest records of human intelligence, appearing on cave paintings, wall carvings, and ancient pottery, and they pervade across cultures from instruction manuals to comics.
Cohn N, Magliano JP.
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Modulation of Spectral Representation and Connectivity Patterns in Response to Visual Narrative in the Human Brain [PDF]
Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2022 The regional brain networks and the underlying neurophysiological mechanisms subserving the cognition of visual narrative in humans have largely been studied with non-invasive brain recording.
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Being explicit about the implicit: inference generating techniques in visual narrative [PDF]
Language and Cognition, 2019 Inference has long been acknowledged as a key aspect of comprehending narratives of all kinds, be they verbal discourse or visual narratives like comics and films.
Neil Cohn
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A narrative review of immersive virtual reality’s ergonomics and risks at the workplace: cybersickness, visual fatigue, muscular fatigue, acute stress, and mental overload [PDF]
Virtual Reality, 2022 This narrative review synthesizes and introduces 386 previous works about virtual reality-induced symptoms and effects by focusing on cybersickness, visual fatigue, muscle fatigue, acute stress, and mental overload.
Alexis D. Souchet +3 more
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What is your neural function, visual narrative conjunction? Grammar, meaning, and fluency in sequential image processing. [PDF]
Cogn Res Princ Implic, 2017 Visual narratives sometimes depict successive images with different characters in the same physical space; corpus analysis has revealed that this occurs more often in Japanese manga than American comics.
Cohn N, Kutas M.
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