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 …

Understanding visual narrative sequences, as found in comics, is known to recruit similar
cognitive mechanisms to verbal language. As measured by event-related potentials (ERPs) …

Abstract We introduce Crip Linguistics as a theoretical and abolitionist framework. People
use languages in different ways. Some people use language to help find other people like …

Understanding how people comprehend visual narratives (including picture stories, comics,
and film) requires the combination of traditionally separate theories that span the initial …

Featured Application The present work has applications in the field of primary and
secondary education. The work describes how educators can take advantage of digital …

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 …

The ability to combine individual concepts of objects, properties, and actions into complex
representations of the world is often associated with language. Yet combinatorial event-level …

Large language models (LLMs) enabled by the datasets and computing power of the last
decade have recently gained popularity for their capacity to generate plausible natural …

Since its inception, the study of language has been a central pillar to Cognitive Science.
Despite an “amodal view,” where language is thought to “flow into” modalities …

This paper presents a pilot study aimed at investigating the comprehension of pantomimic
stories and its possible cognitive underpinnings in typically developing children. A group of …