Here's a fun figure from a paper in progress analyzing the TINTIN Corpus that shows the evolution of telescope POV panels. They go from regular panels with internal cues to just circular panels implying a POV visuallanguagelab.com/tintin
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Neil Cohn
Профиль VivelyComics and emoji creating cognitive (neuro)scientist at Tilburg University studying language, brains, comics, emoji & multimodality (he/him). 😮💨🫠🫥🥹🫨 www.visuallanguagelab.com
I'm on the latest episode of @unpackingpeanuts.bsky.social chatting about comics, the role Peanuts has played in what we know about how brains understand comics, and my new graphic novel Speaking in Pictures. It was a very fun conversation so check it out! pod.link/unpackingpea...
Unpacking PeanutsListen to Unpacking Peanuts wherever you get your podcasts!pod.linkUnpacking Peanuts PodcastWe talk with Eisner-nominated cognitive scientist @neilcohn.bsky.social who looks at how our brains perceive comics. His latest book challenges the conventional understandings of how pictures communicate, how people learn to draw, and the nature of language itself. #comics #cartooning #comicstrips
Loved this call out in "The Origins and Evolution of Writing". It says "established linguistic frameworks don't predict graphics and writing system development"... Footnote: "Did we say none? Actually, Cohn and Schilperoord's (2024) multimodal model works!" www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
I’ll also be speaking as part of this workshop about graphic communication! #cogsci2026
samuel mehrEn route to #cogsci2026! 🇧🇷 🇧🇷 Hope to see you at the Unconventional Communication workshop on Weds morning where I'll be giving a talk on the meanings of sounds Details at unconventional-communication.github.io
Just a reminder you can get all my books for a pretty big discount this week, including my latest graphic novel Speaking in Pictures about comics, graphics, language, and cognition www.bloomsbury.com/us/speaking-...
Bloomsbury LinguisticsHave you taken advantage of our week-long summer sale yet? ☀️ Linguistics bestsellers and recent releases are up to 30% off until Sunday 19! Start with these highlights: bit.ly/3VaCsLh @neilcohn.bsky.social @philipseargeant.bsky.social
Have you wanted to check out my research about comics, drawings, language, cognition, and multimodality? All my books, including my graphic novel Speaking in Pictures, are now 30% off for this week from @bloomsburyling.bsky.social! www.bloomsbury.com/us/speaking-...
Another case of visuals not being universally understood... People are confused over the Dutch pictogram intended to prohibit topless sunbathing at beaches nos.nl/artikel/2622...
Verwarring over verbod op naakt zonnen bij Breda, pictogram wordt aangepastTopless zonnen mag dus wél bij de recreatieplassen, benadrukt een woordvoerder bij Omroep Brabant.nos.nlPosting this again because it’s so fun… a nice part about doing a book about graphics and comics is that people draw comics as reviews of your work! Check out this awesome comic about my book Speaking in Pictures
JasmineIt's been a while since my last book review. This one's a little different, in the form of a comic reviewing Speaking in Pictures: A Vision of Language by @neilcohn.bsky.social.
Check out this amazing review by @jasmine-sf.bsky.social of my book Speaking in Pictures, done as a comic!
JasmineIt's been a while since my last book review. This one's a little different, in the form of a comic reviewing Speaking in Pictures: A Vision of Language by @neilcohn.bsky.social.