Lab News:

Neil Cohn is awarded an ERC Consolidator grant to study the neuroscience of the grammar of pictures and comics!

Congrats to Lenneke Lichtenberg on her first paper, “Understanding lightbulb moments: Meaning-making in visual morphology from comics and emoji”!

Upcoming Speaking

Sept. 12-14, 2025. Keynote. Japanese Cognitive Science Society Meeting, Tokyo, Japan

Sept. 21-24, 2025. Keynote. Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, Poland

Feb. 21-23, 2026. Keynote. Iconicity in Language and Literature/IcoSem 2026. Nagoya, Japan

Organizations to support

Hero Initiative

Comic Book Legal Defense Fund

Recent publications

• Lichtenberg, Lenneke Doris, Bien Klomberg, Joost Schilperoord, and Neil Cohn. 2025. Understanding Lightbulb Moments: Meaning-making in visual morphology from comics and emoji. Memory and Cognition
• Krajinović, Ana, Irmak Hacımusaoğlu, Bruno Cardoso, and Neil Cohn. 2025. Mark the unexpected! Animacy preference and goal-directed movement in visual language. Cognitive Science 49 (5):e70067
• Upadhyayula, Aditya and Neil Cohn. 2025. A computational framework to study hierarchical processing in visual narratives. Cognitive Science. 49(5): e70050
• Cohn, Neil, Fred Atilla, Lenneke Lichtenberg, and Bruno Cardoso. 2025. The influence of writing systems on comics layouts. Cognition 260 (106136):1-8.
• Lindfors, Hanna, Kristina Hansson, Neil Cohn, Annika Andersson. 2025. Similarities in semantic processing across verbal and pictorial domains in school children with developmental language disorder. Frontiers in Psychology. 16
• Cohn, Neil and Joost Schilperoord. 2025. Language Acquisition in the Multimodal Parallel Architecture: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek. First Language.
• Hacımusaoğlu, Irmak and Neil Cohn. 2025. Are we moving too fast?: Representation of speed in static images. Journal of Cognition. 8(1):1, 1-18
• Klomberg, Bien, Klavdiia Fadeeva, Joost Schilperoord, and Neil Cohn. 2025. Processing incongruity for mental events in comics: Contours of character inferences. Metaphor and Symbol. 40(1): 51-75

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