Editors' Introduction and Review: Visual Narrative Research: An Emerging Field in Cognitive Science. (22nd December 2019)
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- Journal Article
- Title:
- Editors' Introduction and Review: Visual Narrative Research: An Emerging Field in Cognitive Science. (22nd December 2019)
- Main Title:
- Editors' Introduction and Review: Visual Narrative Research: An Emerging Field in Cognitive Science
- Authors:
- Cohn, Neil
Magliano, Joseph P. - Abstract:
- Abstract: 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 instruction manuals to comics. They also appear prevalently as stimuli across Cognitive Science, for studies of temporal cognition, event structure, social cognition, discourse, and basic intelligence. Yet, despite this fundamental place in human expression and research on cognition, the study of visual narratives themselves has only recently gained traction in Cognitive Science. This work has suggested that visual narrative comprehension requires cultural exposure across a developmental trajectory and engages with domain‐general processing mechanisms shared by visual perception, attention, event cognition, and language, among others. Here, we review the relevance of such research for the broader Cognitive Science community, and make the case for why researchers should join the scholarship of this ubiquitous but understudied aspect of human expression. Abstract : Drawn sequences of images, like those in comics and picture stories, are a pervasive and fundamental way that humans have communicated for millennia. Yet, the study of visual narratives has only recently gained traction in Cognitive Science. Here we explore what has held back the study of the cognition of visual narratives, and why researchers should join in scholarship of this ubiquitous aspect of expression.
- Is Part Of:
- Topics in cognitive science. Volume 12:Number 1(2020)
- Journal:
- Topics in cognitive science
- Issue:
- Volume 12:Number 1(2020)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 12, Issue 1 (2020)
- Year:
- 2020
- Volume:
- 12
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2020-0012-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 197
- Page End:
- 223
- Publication Date:
- 2019-12-22
- Subjects:
- Cognitive science -- Visual narratives -- Discourse -- Cognition
Cognitive science -- Periodicals
Cognitive Science -- Periodicals
153.05 - Journal URLs:
- http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1756-8765 ↗
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121673067/toc ↗
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1111/tops.12473 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 1756-8757
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