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!
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- 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
- 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/...
- Really excited to finally see our chapter come out on "Iconicity in the visual lexicons of comics"! We describe how iconicity in graphics often involves far more conventionality than is often assumed Book chapter: academic.oup.com/edited-volum... OA preprint: visuallanguagelab.com/P/InPress.OH...
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- What the hell is happening with Spider-Man’s legs and how did this ever make it to print??
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- Reposted by Neil CohnInterpreting EEG requires understanding how the skull smears electrical fields as they propagate from the cortex. I made a browser-based simulator for my EEG class to visualize how dipole depth/orientation change the topomap. dbrang.github.io/EEG-Dipole-D... Github page: github.com/dbrang/EEG-D...
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- My new graphic novel, Speaking in Pictures, is out in just over a month (ebooks in just a few weeks)! If you want to learn about language, cognition, comics, and visual communication, it's 20% off from @bloomsburyling.bsky.social using promocode NEILCOHN20 www.bloomsbury.com/uk/speaking-...
- An abstract and existential experience that's one of the best comics, while also incredibly hard to describe what it's about
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- ICYMI, our recent paper explores "flow" in comics by theorizing how it works, and then detailing how it manifests in a corpus of 417 comics from around the world. I summarize our work in this post which links to the journal article www.visuallanguagelab.com/2025/12/goin...
- Comic creators often talk about "flow" through the composition of comics pages, but little work has actually studied it. So, our newest paper explores what flow is and how it works, which I’ve summarized in a more accessible way in this post: www.visuallanguagelab.com/2025/12/goin...
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- Wow! My author copies arrived early for my new book from @bloomsburyling.bsky.social, Speaking in Pictures, about language, cognition, comics, and visual communication. It looks beautiful, and after working on it for 7 years I’m so glad it’s out in the world soon! www.visuallanguagelab.com/sip
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- So exciting... just found out my author copies of Speaking with Pictures are arriving next week. After working on this graphic novel for 7 years I can't wait to see what it's like fully printed 📖👀 www.visuallanguagelab.com/sip
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- Comic creators often talk about "flow" through the composition of comics pages, but little work has actually studied it. So, our newest paper explores what flow is and how it works, which I’ve summarized in a more accessible way in this post: www.visuallanguagelab.com/2025/12/goin...
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- Reposted by Neil Cohn"I can't afford to support my favorite author right now, I—" Reviews. Reviews are free AND they are a gift to authors that can keep on giving (i.e., exposure, marketing, algo boosts, etc.) Please, give the gift of reviews to your authors this holiday season. It really can make a difference!
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- The paperback version of my book A Multimodal Language Faculty is now out! It's been described as a "true paradigm shift" for the language sciences, presenting a multimodal paradigm and model of language and communication www.visuallanguagelab.com/mlf
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