Neil Cohn
Comics creating cognitive (neuro)scientist at Tilburg University studying language, brains, comics, emoji & multimodality (he/him). 😮💨🫠🫥🥹🫨
www.visuallanguagelab.com
- I'm on the excellent @hiphilangsci.bsky.social podcast talking about linguistics and my research on visual languages. Check it out!
- When pictures speak, they podcast 😉 Neil Cohn (@neilcohn.bsky.social) joins James McElvenny (@jamesmcelvenny.bsky.social) to talk about his new book and the shared cognitive foundations underlying visual art and spoken language. 🎙️ hiphilangsci.net/2026/02/01/p... #Histlx
- At long last, my new book, Speaking in Pictures, comes out this week as an ebook and in a few weeks for physical books! It's a 300+ page graphic novel about language, cognition, comics, and visual communication written and drawn entirely by me visuallanguagelab.com/sip
- Speaking in Pictures is designed to also be a good introductory text for teaching about linguistics, comics, multimodality, and visual communication, so I've put together a site with recommendations about how to use it in course design and assignments www.visuallanguagelab.com/speaking-in-...
- Here's an interesting new paper that compares full page layout of comics vs. "guided view" on apps. It shows that less proficient comic readers get enhanced comprehension by "guided view" comic reading, but proficient readers prefer full-page layouts journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
