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Neil Cohn is a researcher affiliated with Tilburg University in the Netherlands. Their work spans multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on psychology, arts and humanities, and neuroscience. Within these fields, their research often delves into areas such as experimental and cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, developmental and educational psychology, language and linguistics, as well as visual arts and performing arts.

The main topics that feature prominently in Neil Cohn's research include language, metaphor, and cognition; neurobiology of language and bilingualism; reading and literacy development; comics and graphic narratives; multisensory perception and integration; subtitles and audiovisual media; and digital storytelling and education.

Frequent collaborators in their scientific work include Joost Schilperoord, Irmak Hacımusaoğlu, Bien Klomberg, Tom Foulsham, and Emily L. Coderre.

Neil Cohn has published extensively in several academic venues. The most common publication outlets for their work are Cognitive Science, Memory & Cognition, Scientific Reports, Brain and Cognition, and Neuropsychologia.

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on cognitive and linguistic aspects of narrative comprehension and multimodality. Selected recent publications include:

  • "Visual and Verbal Narrative Comprehension in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorders: An ERP Study" (2020, Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders)
  • "Remarks on Multimodality: Grammatical Interactions in the Parallel Architecture" (2022, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence)
  • "Reimagining Language" (2022, Cognitive Science)
  • "Effects of picture-word integration on reading visual narratives in L1 and L2" (2020, Learning and Instruction)
  • "The Lexicon of Emoji? Conventionality Modulates Processing of Emoji" (2023, Cognitive Science)

In addition to journal articles, Neil Cohn has authored several books published primarily by Bloomsbury Publishing and Firenze University Press. Notable titles include:

  • A Multimodal Language Faculty (2024, Bloomsbury Publishing plc)
  • The Patterns of Comics (2023, Bloomsbury Publishing plc)
  • Who Understands Comics? (2020, Bloomsbury Academic eBooks)
  • Il graphic novel. Un crossover per la modernità (2020, Firenze University Press)

Best Publications

  • THE VISUAL LANGUAGE OF COMICS: INTRODUCTION TO THE STRUCTURE AND COGNITION OF SEQUENTIAL IMAGES

    Neil Cohn

  • Visual narrative structure.

    Neil Cohn

  • (Pea)nuts and bolts of visual narrative: structure and meaning in sequential image comprehension

    Neil Cohn;Martin Paczynski;Ray Jackendoff;Phillip J. Holcomb

  • The limits of time and transitions: challenges to theories of sequential image comprehension

    Neil Cohn

  • Navigating comics: an empirical and theoretical approach to strategies of reading comic page layouts.

    Neil Cohn

  • Japanese Visual Language: The structure of manga

    Neil Cohn

  • Beyond speech balloons and thought bubbles: The integration of text and image

    Neil Cohn

  • Electrophysiological correlates of complement coercion

    Gina R. Kuperberg;Arim Choi;Neil Cohn;Martin Paczynski

  • Explaining ‘I Can’t Draw’: Parallels between the Structure and Development of Language and Drawing

    Neil Cohn

  • Prediction, events, and the advantage of agents: the processing of semantic roles in visual narrative.

    Neil Cohn;Martin Paczynski

  • The grammar of visual narrative: Neural evidence for constituent structure in sequential image comprehension.

    Neil Cohn;Neil Cohn;Ray Jackendoff;Phillip J. Holcomb;Gina R. Kuperberg

  • A multimodal parallel architecture: A cognitive framework for multimodal interactions.

    Neil Cohn

  • A Visual Lexicon

    Neil Cohn

  • Comics, Linguistics, and Visual Language: The Past and Future of a Field

    Neil Cohn

  • Reading Without Words: Eye Movements in the Comprehension of Comic Strips

    Tom Foulsham;Dean P Wybrow;Neil Cohn

  • The architecture of visual narrative comprehension: the interaction of narrative structure and page layout in understanding comics.

    Neil Cohn

  • A User's Guide to Thought and Meaning

    Ray S. Jackendoff;Neil Cohn;Bill Griffith

  • Early writings on visual language

    Neil Cohn

  • You're a good structure, Charlie Brown: the distribution of narrative categories in comic strips.

    Neil Cohn

  • Your Brain on Comics: A Cognitive Model of Visual Narrative Comprehension.

    Neil Cohn

  • Action starring narratives and events: Structure and inference in visual narrative comprehension

    Neil Cohn;Eva Wittenberg

  • Un-Defining "Comics": Separating the cultural from the structural in ‘comics’

    Neil Cohn

Frequent Co-Authors

Ray Jackendoff
Ray Jackendoff Tufts University
Gina R. Kuperberg
Gina R. Kuperberg Tufts University
Tom Foulsham
Tom Foulsham University of Essex
Phillip J. Holcomb
Phillip J. Holcomb San Diego State University
Marta Kutas
Marta Kutas University of California, San Diego
Paulo S. Boggio
Paulo S. Boggio Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie
Joseph P. Magliano
Joseph P. Magliano Georgia State University
Tim J. Smith
Tim J. Smith Birkbeck, University of London
Jeffrey M. Zacks
Jeffrey M. Zacks Washington University in St. Louis
Robert L. Goldstone
Robert L. Goldstone Indiana University

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