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Neil Cohn, "Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

Oct 30, 2023
Neil Cohn, author of 'Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension', challenges the assumption of universal comprehension of visual narratives. He explores the complexity of interpreting images, cultural variations, and the developmental trajectory in acquiring the ability to comprehend visual narratives. The podcast also covers topics like the brain's predictions and updates in comics, the influence of disordered focus on comic popularity, methods in visual language comprehension studies, children's development of visual language fluency, and the differences between films and comics in comprehension processes.
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