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The Visual Linguist: New paper: Notion of the Motion

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The Visual Linguist Blog. What is Visual Langauge? Thursday, February 05, 2015. New paper: Notion of the Motion. I'm excited to say that my paper, "The notion of the motion: The neurocognition of motion lines in visual narratives" with Steve Maher is now published in the latest issue of Brain Research. It examines the comprehension of motion lines. The paper is available here ( pdf. And in the "visual vocabulary" section of my Downloadable Papers. Posted by Neil Cohn. February 08, 2015 9:36 AM.

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The Visual Linguist: The non-universality of cartoony images and comics

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The Visual Linguist Blog. What is Visual Langauge? Monday, June 15, 2015. The non-universality of cartoony images and comics. There are many who assume that cartoony images and the ability to understand sequential images is universal. The 1978 study " Communicating with Pictures in Nepal. By Fussell and Haaland reports on a study exploring these issues. The remainder of the paper discusses efforts to improve instructional papers based on feedback from Nepalese. These results are expected: one must have e...

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The Visual Linguist: ComicCon 2015 postscript

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The Visual Linguist Blog. What is Visual Langauge? Tuesday, July 14, 2015. As always, I had a great time at ComicCon this year! I thought my panel on "The scientific study of the visual language of comics". Went great, and I greatly enjoyed talking with everyone who came by the booth to chat with me and check out my book. I am also quite thankful to Reading with Pictures. For kindly hosting me at their booth! Paper, along with hints from my introduction to my upcoming book, The Visual Narrative Reader.

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The Visual Linguist: Comic-Con 2015: The Scientific Study of The Visual Language of Comics

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The Visual Linguist Blog. What is Visual Langauge? Monday, July 20, 2015. Comic-Con 2015: The Scientific Study of The Visual Language of Comics. For those wishing to follow up on things mentioned in the video. Note that my book is available here. And the experiments/diagnostics discussed are available in papers here. In particular, for more advocacy of methods of scholarship about comics, I recommend the paper "Building a better comic theory" ( pdf. Posted by Neil Cohn. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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The Visual Linguist: August 2015

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The Visual Linguist Blog. What is Visual Langauge? Wednesday, August 26, 2015. New paper: Action starring narrative and events. Waaaay back in 2008 I first posted. About a phenomenon in comics that I called an "action star", such as the third panel in this sequence:. This panel, it is different than the type of "closure" proposed by McCloud to take place between. The panels. Rather, you need to get to the last panel to figure out what happened in the one prior, not what happens between panels 3 and 4.

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The Visual Linguist: New paper on comic page layouts

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The Visual Linguist Blog. What is Visual Langauge? Thursday, March 12, 2015. New paper on comic page layouts. I'm excited to announce that my paper, "Navigating Comics II" on people's preferences for moving from panel-to-panel in comic page layouts is now published in the latest issue of Applied Cognitive Psychology. This project was undertaken by my student (and co-author), Hannah Campbell, for my course on the Cognition of Comics. At UC San Diego. This project is a follow up to my previous study. Check...

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The Visual Linguist: Using the theory of narrative grammar

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The Visual Linguist Blog. What is Visual Langauge? Tuesday, October 14, 2014. Using the theory of narrative grammar. As people have now started reading my book. They've naturally started to try to apply my theories of "narrative grammar" to sequential images found in comics. My "narrative grammar" is a model of how the "storytelling" of sequential images is understood, which extends beyond previous approaches like Scott McCloud's theory of panel-to-panel transitions. Does this mean the theory is wrong?

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The Visual Linguist: Comic reading fluency

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The Visual Linguist Blog. What is Visual Langauge? Tuesday, August 04, 2015. 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. Page, along with full documentation and files for computing it. Given this, I got to thinking. I wonder if this data could tell us something interesting about comic readers in general? So, I spent the other day combining together VLFI data from over 23 experiments that we'...

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The Visual Linguist: Germany workshops recap

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The Visual Linguist Blog. What is Visual Langauge? Thursday, July 10, 2014. I'm a few weeks late to post on it, but my workshops in Germany were wonderfully fun! I've spent the intervening week traveling throughout the East Coast, so I'm only now able to get to posting photos and whatnot from the trip. I then gave my last talk as part of a series on film, which meant I had to discuss at least some ideas about how to apply my narrative grammar to film. That talk was in an amazing circular room at the ...

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The Visual Linguist: An update: Talks of future past

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The Visual Linguist Blog. What is Visual Langauge? Thursday, August 28, 2014. An update: Talks of future past. I've got roughly a month left of my summer (yay quarter system! And it's been a wild ride so far. I've given talks in Germany, Québec City, and Seattle, and by the time summer is over, I'll have given roughly 10 talks over three months! And it looks like a very fun line up! Speaking of talks, I'm excited to say that my recent talk up in Seattle at Microsoft's FUSE Labs. He'd be 97 today. Links t...