New paper: Visual narrative comprehension: Universal or not?
My latest paper has now been published in Psychonomic Bulletin and Review entitled “Visual Narrative Comprehension: Universal or not?” This paper explores to what degree sequences of images are universally […]
New paper: What’s your neural function, narrative conjunction?
I’m excited to announce that my new paper “What’s your neural function, narrative conjunction: Grammar, meaning, and fluency in sequential image processing” is now out in the open access journal […]
Dispelling myths about comics page layout
There are many websites and twitter accounts that give advice about how to draw comics, and perhaps no other piece of “advice” arises more than the repeated advocacy to avoid […]
Dispelling emoji myths
In my recent BBC article and my blog posts about emoji, I have tried to explain how emoji are not an emerging language, but that they do serve important functions that resemble other […]
Comic reading fluency
At my ComicCon panel, someone asked me whether I have a measure for comic reading experience. Indeed, I do! I’ve been using the Visual Language Fluency Index (VLFI) score which […]
The Visual Language Fluency Index
One of the interesting findings throughout many of my experiments is that the comprehension of sequential images seems to be modulated by participants’ “comic reading expertise.” These effects are predicted […]
Science and Eddie Campbell’s rules of comics comprehension
In Eddie Campbell’s recent article at The Comics Journal, he described several potential “rhetorical rules” that authors of comics can follow in order to make them more understandable to inexperienced […]
Fluency and dialects in understanding comics
In a recent article at The Comics Journal, Eddie Campbell describes the challenge facing some people who “can’t understand comics,” and offers “rules of comprehension” to help aid readers along […]