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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

Hacımusaoğlu, Irmak and Neil Cohn. Are we moving too fast?: Representation of speed in static imagesJournal ofCognition. 8(1):1, 1-18

Klomberg, Bien, Klavdiia FadeevaJoost Schilperoordand 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.

Kubinski, Sarah, Trevor Brothers, Neil Cohn, and Emily L. Coderre. 2024. Effects of predictability on visual and linguistic narrative comprehension in autistic adultsLanguage, Cognition, and Neuroscience.

Klomberg, Bien, Joost Schilperoord, and Neil CohnConstructing Domains in Visual Narratives: Structural Patterns of Incongruity ResolutionJournal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics: Advances in Neuroaesthetics. 47(3): 37-55

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