How do people make sense of the sequential images in visual narratives like comics? A
growing literature of recent research has suggested that this comprehension involves the …

The juxtaposition of two images often produces the illusory sense of time passing, as found
in the visual language used in modern comic books, which creates the sense that this linear …

The past decade has seen a rapid growth of cognitive and brain research focused on visual
narratives like comics and picture stories. This paper will summarize and integrate this …

Understanding visual narratives requires readers to track dimensions of time, spatial
location, and characters across a sequence. Previous work has found situational changes …

Narratives are a fundamental aspect of human communication, and extend across several
domains of expression. While the structure of verbal narratives has been studied …

Studies of discourse have long placed focus on the inference generated by information that
is not overtly expressed, and theories of visual narrative comprehension similarly focused on …

The way we understand a narrative sequence of images may seem effortless, given the
prevalence of comics and picture stories across contemporary society. Yet, visual narrative …

Abstract Cohn's (2013) theory of “Visual Narrative Grammar” argues that sequential images
take on categorical roles in a narrative structure, which organizes them into hierarchic …

Visual narratives of sequential images–as found in comics, picture stories, and storyboards–
are often thought to provide a fairly universal and transparent message that requires minimal …

Drawn sequences of images are among our oldest records of human intelligence, appearing
on cave paintings, wall carvings, and ancient pottery, and they pervade across cultures from …