It’s that time of the year… We’re running experiments testing comprehension of elements that appear in comics. This one still needs participants, so if you’ve experience with reading comics and would like to help science (or lovely thesis students), here is the link: jatos.uvt.nl/publix/run?c...

♥️

Neil Cohn@neilcohn.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Congrats to @cogirmak.bsky.social whose dissertation is now printed and ready to be defended in a few weeks! She researched the visual depiction of motion events as part of our broader TINTIN Project, so here’s a little thread of her work… www.visuallanguagelab.com/tintin

this comment made me so happy! ♥️

Joseph@jamusco.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Whoosh! This is a great paper to introduce science to any audience. Have an idea about something? Test it empirically!

A fun find: Hokusai used background motion lines about 200 years ago in this page from one of his books of picture stories. This is the oldest example of these that I know of, and interestingly manga tend to use these more than other types of comics (See corpus in: www.visuallanguagelab.com/poc)

I was mesmerized by the idea that something static can convey not only motion but also temporality, and I decided to test it empirically. It wasn’t an easy task, as the way our data was organized didn’t make it straightforward. But now, here is our paper! ♥️ www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

Neil Cohn@neilcohn.bsky.social · 11mo ago

New paper alert! Work by @cogirmak.bsky.social explores the motion events in 300+ comics from around the world, revealing subtle underlying features of different types of motion cues: "Whoosh! visual depictions of direction, speed, and temporality" www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

My dissertation got approved!!!The only thing left is to defend it, pls wish me luck. (You have almost 6 months to wish me luck, so should be good). 🫶🏻 www.tilburguniversity.edu/current/even...

PhD Defense Irmak Hacımusaoğlu | Tilburg University

The dynamic out of the static: Representation of motion and spatiotemporality in static images

tilburguniversity.edu

In a new paper, @anakrajinovic.bsky.social, @cogirmak.bsky.social, and I show that living vs. non-living entities are marked differently for motion in graphics. This is similar to spoken languages, so we propose a possible universal across modalities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Yesterday I gave a guest lecture on Visual Language Theory as part of the Architecture and Comics course at MEF University. It was very interesting and we played around with affixation to find new meanings. For example, the one below means being happy with your miserable self!

Writing articles was not the best at giving me an immediate reward but I guess it pays off 🥳 if you are curious about the paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

I submitted my dissertation!!!! It was the longest thing I've ever done (I like things I can do in one go). I still can't believe how I did it despite my brain (well, also thanks to my brain). 🧿

Finally out! 🚗 💨

Neil Cohn@neilcohn.bsky.social · 2y ago

I'm excited to announce that @cogirmak.bsky.social and I have a new paper on motion line comprehension! Here she showed different motion cues imply different speeds: "Are We Moving Too Fast?: Representation of Speed in Static Images" journalofcognition.org/articles/10....

see, my work is practical too 🙃

Neil Cohn@neilcohn.bsky.social · 2y ago

This sign at the Herge museum summarizes @cogirmak.bsky.social’s dissertation topic 🏃‍♀️💨

such big news! generally he tells me “proud advisor moment” and now it is my turn. proud advisee moment more than ever (well for now, i know he’ll not stop) ♥️

Neil Cohn@neilcohn.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’m excited to announce that I’ve received an ERC Consolidator Grant to study the cognitive neuroscience of the grammar of pictures and comics! Here’s a mini thread about my upcoming "PICTREE Project" www.tilburguniversity.edu/current/news...

spoiler: manga readership makes a difference in interpreting which cues represent faster motion #staytuned

Neil Cohn@neilcohn.bsky.social · 2y ago

Also, @cogirmak.bsky.social has a new study out soon (now in press) that shows people interpret these various motion cues as differing in how they convey speed. It's a really cool study so I'm sooo excited for that to come out 🏃🏽‍♀️💨

Go check out this great short talk by my postdoc @anakrajinovic.bsky.social about her work as part of our TINTIN Project on a potential cognitive universal related to marking animacy in motion events in comics and language youtu.be/8Z3Ozin_dco?...

Mark the unexpected! Animacy preference and motion marking in visual language

YouTube video by Ana Krajinovic

youtu.be

I should add that @cogirmak.bsky.social and @anakrajinovic.bsky.social have been doing great work analyzing the structure of motion events in comics, and Ana has a nice accessible write up of her findings in this article medium.com/anas-stories...

Research on Comics Reveals How We Perceive What Is Alive

I know corals are alive, but they really don’t look like it.

medium.com

Other people to follow… my PhD student @cogirmak.bsky.social studies how graphics like in comics convey motion events, and my postdoc @anakrajinovic.bsky.social studies how comics and language share universal design features, like in this great Medium article she wrote medium.com/anas-stories...

Research on Comics Reveals How We Perceive What Is Alive

I know corals are alive, but they really don’t look like it.

medium.com

Awhile back @cogirmak.bsky.social had a nice short article about Visual Language Theory and motion events in Turkish, and now there's a version in English! Check it out! thecognizer.com/post/visual-...

Congrats to @cogirmak.bsky.social mak who has a new review paper out in @cogscisociety.bsky.social about how people comprehend motion/speed lines: "The Meaning of Motion Lines?: A Review of Theoretical and Empirical Research on Static Depiction of Motion" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Thanks for all the support you provided throughout the process. I can’t believe 😳🧿

Neil Cohn@neilcohn.bsky.social · 3y ago

Congrats to my PhD student @cogirmak.bsky.social who amazingly just had her paper reviewing the literature on motion line comprehension accepted without revisions in Cognitive Science 😱😱😱

Visual Language Conference is coming! ⏩If you want to join us or get more info👇🏻

Neil Cohn@neilcohn.bsky.social · 3y ago

We’re hosting a conference! In June we’ll host the Visual Language Conference 2024 (VisLang2024) at Tilburg University for research on graphic and multimodal communication. Submissions are now open. Please submit, join us, and circulate the CFP widely! www.visuallanguagelab.com/vislang2024

Another fun visual language lab seminar with @cogirmak.bsky.social and co, today tackling the structure of the Devil’s Fork

Welcome to Bluesky @cogirmak.bsky.social, my PhD student who studies comics, motion events, and time space relationships. Follow her!