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  • 2022: My publications in review

    I’m a little late to post it, but in keeping with my annual tradition, here’s a rundown of all the papers I published in 2022. There were a lot of […]


Recent papers

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. Are we moving too fast?: Representation of speed in static imagesJournal 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 inferencesMetaphor and Symbol. 40(1): 51-75

Titarsolej, Sam, Neil Cohn, and Nanne van Noord. 2024. Drawing Insights: Sequential Representation Learning in Comics. In 35th British Machine Vision Conference 2024, (BMVC) 2024, Glasgow, UK, November 25-28, 2024. Glasgow, UK: BMVA.

Cohn, Neil, Lincy van Middelaar, Tom Foulsham, and Joost Schilperoord. 2024. Anaphoric distance dependencies in visual narrative structure and processingCognitive Psychology. 149: 101639

Books on Visual Language

The Patterns of Comics
Released December 2023!

Who Understands Comics? Book
2021 Eisner Award Nominee
The Visual Narrative Reader
The Visual Language of Comics