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
emerging literature into the Parallel Interfacing Narrative‐Semantics Model (PINS Model)—a
theory of sequential image processing characterized by an interaction between two
representational levels: semantics and narrative structure. Ongoing semantic processes
build meaning into an evolving mental model of a visual discourse. Updating of spatial …