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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 2019
Consultation 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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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
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(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
87 Citations (Scopus) -
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
46 Citations (Scopus) -
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
42 Citations (Scopus) -
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
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Activities
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Markus Huff
Neil Cohn (Host)
10 Oct 2018Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor › Scientific
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Benjamin Bach
Neil Cohn (Host)
26 Sep 2018Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor › Scientific
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John Bateman
Neil Cohn (Host)
12 Sep 2018Activity: Hosting a visitor types › Hosting an academic visitor › Scientific
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Complexity in visual narrative grammar
Neil Cohn (Speaker)
27 Jul 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Oral presentation › Scientific
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The architecture of multimodal cognition
Neil Cohn (Speaker)
7 Jun 2018Activity: Talk or presentation types › Invited talk › Scientific
Press/Media
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Back to the Caveman: Are Emojis Replacing Words?
10/07/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
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All smilies; are emoji meanings changing how we date?
2/05/17
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Expert Comment
Prizes / Recognition
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Language processing: domain general or domain specific? ERP studies of verbal and visual language processing in children with typical and atypical language development
Andersson, A. (Recipient), Cohn, Neil (Recipient), Hansson, K. (Recipient) & Drury, J. (Recipient), 2020
Prize
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Datasets
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Processing and understanding inferential techniques in visual narratives
Klomberg, B. (Contributor) & Cohn, N. (Contributor), DataverseNL, 31 Jan 2022
DOI: 10.34894/dtbw7m, https://dataverse.nl/citation?persistentId=doi:10.34894/DTBW7M
Dataset
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The framing of subjectivity: Point-of-view in a cross-cultural analysis of comics - Data and Publication
Cohn, N. (Creator), Hacımusaoğlu, I. (Creator) & Klomberg, B. (Creator), DataverseNL, 19 Jan 2023
DOI: 10.34894/nnpwi6, https://dataverse.nl/citation?persistentId=doi:10.34894/NNPWI6
Dataset
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The Visual Language Research Corpus (VLRC) Project
Cohn, N. (Contributor), DataverseNL, 19 Apr 2022
DOI: 10.34894/lwmz7g, https://dataverse.nl/citation?persistentId=doi:10.34894/LWMZ7G
Dataset
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Additional file 1: of What's your neural function, visual narrative conjunction? Grammar, meaning, and fluency in sequential image processing
Cohn, N. (Contributor) & Kutas, M. (Contributor), Figshare, 24 May 2017
DOI: 10.6084/m9.figshare.c.3798070_d1, https://figshare.com/articles/Additional_file_1_of_What_s_your_neural_function_visual_narrative_conjunction_Grammar_meaning_and_fluency_in_sequential_image_processing/5090767
Dataset
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Linguistic Typology of Motion Events in Visual Narratives - Data and Publication
Cohn, N. (Creator) & Hacımusaoğlu, I. (Creator), DataverseNL, 19 Jan 2023
DOI: 10.34894/f9uidb, https://dataverse.nl/citation?persistentId=doi:10.34894/F9UIDB
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