Research Output per year
Personal profile
Research interests
My research explores the structure and cognition of drawings and visual narratives. In particular, my work argues that drawings and sequential images are structured and processed using similar principles and mechanisms as verbal and signed languages. My work explores these "visual languages" across all levels of structure. I use linguistic theory to detail the structure of these systems, and corpus analysis to examine how they differ across cultures. Finally, I use psychological methods of experimentation, primarily cognitive neuroscience (EEG), to examine how people's brains process individual and sequential images.
My work can be found online at: http://www.visuallanguagelab.com
Career
2014-2015. Postdoctoral Fellow. Institute for Neural Computation, UCSD.
2012-2013. Postdoctoral Fellow. Center for Research in Language, UCSD. (Advisors: Marta Kutas, Jeff Elman)
Current courses
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External positions
Consultation (BBC News Labs)
1 Mar 2019 → 31 Mar 2019Consultation and promotion (LingoZING Holdings LTD)
1 Jul 2015 → …Keywords
- visual language
- visual narrative
- multimodality
- cognitive neuroscience
- linguistics
- cross-modal cognition
- drawing
- visual communication
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Research Output 2003 2019
The Visual Language of Comics: Introduction to the Structure and Cognition of Sequential Images
Cohn, N., 2013, London: Bloomsbury Academic. 224 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › Scientific
Cognition
Visual Languages
Visual Narrative
Language
Cross-cultural Differences
(Pea)nuts and bolts of visual narrative: structure and meaning in sequential image comprehension
Cohn, N., Paczynski, M., Jackendoff, R., Holcomb, P. J. & Kuperberg, G. R., Aug 2012, In : Cognitive Psychology. 65, 1, p. 1-38 38 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Nuts (fasteners)
Peas
Bolts
comprehension
Semantics
The grammar of visual narrative: Neural evidence for constituent structure in sequential image comprehension
Cohn, N., Jackendoff, R., Holcomb, P. J. & Kuperberg, G. R., Nov 2014, In : Neuropsychologia. 64, p. 63-70 8 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Language
Music
Explaining 'I Can't Draw': Parallels between the Structure and Development of Language and Drawing
Cohn, N., 2012, In : Human Development. 55, 4, p. 167-192 26 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
What is your neural function, visual narrative conjunction? Grammar, meaning, and fluency in sequential image processing
Cohn, N. & Kutas, M., 2017, In : Cognitive research: principles and implications. 2, 1, p. 27Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Open Access
File
Language
Activities 2016 2018
The architecture of multimodal cognition
Neil Cohn (Speaker)7 Jun 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Scientific
Benjamin Bach
Neil Cohn (Host)26 Sep 2018
Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor › Scientific
The formal analysis and semantic interpretation of pictorial representations
Neil Cohn (Speaker)16 Mar 2018 → 17 Mar 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Scientific
A multimodal architecture of language
Neil Cohn (Speaker)19 Mar 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Scientific
The grammar of visual narratives.
Neil Cohn (Speaker)22 Mar 2018
Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Scientific
Press / Media
Back to the Caveman: Are Emojis Replacing Words?
10/07/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
All smilies; are emoji meanings changing how we date?
2/05/17
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment