Visual narratives as a window into language and cognition

Project Information

TINTIN

Grant agreement ID: 850975

DOI

10.3030/850975

Project closed

EC signature date 13 December 2019

Start date 1 February 2020

End date 31 July 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 500 000,00

EU contribution

€ 1 500 000,00

Coordinated by

TILBURG UNIVERSITY- UNIVERSITEIT VAN TILBURG
Netherlands

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (16)

The framing of subjectivity: Point-of-view in a cross-cultural analysis of comics

Author(s): Neil Cohn; Irmak Hacımusaoğlu; Bien Klomberg
Published in: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 2022, ISSN 2150-4857
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2022.2152067

Mark the Unexpected! Animacy Preference and Directed Movement in Visual Language

Author(s): Ana Krajinović, Irmak Hacımusaoğlu, Neil Cohn
Published in: Cognitive Science, Issue 49, 2025, ISSN 0364-0213
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.70067

The influence of writing systems on comics layouts

Author(s): Neil Cohn, Fred Atilla, Lenneke Lichtenberg, Bruno Cardoso
Published in: Cognition, Issue 260, 2025, Page(s) 1-8, ISSN 0010-0277
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2025.106136

Running through the Who, Where, and When: A Cross-cultural Analysis of Situational Changes in Comics

Author(s): Bien Klomberg, Irmak Hacımusaoğlu, Neil Cohn
Published in: Discourse Processes, 2022, ISSN 1532-6950
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
DOI: 10.1080/0163853x.2022.2106402

Constructing Domains in Visual Narratives: Structural Patterns of Incongruity Resolution

Author(s): Bien Klomberg, Joost Schilperoord, Neil Cohn
Published in: Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, 2024, ISSN 0252-8169
Publisher: Vishvanatha Kaviraja Institute of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics

The Visual Language Research Corpus (VLRC): an annotated corpus of comics from Asia, Europe, and the United States

Author(s): Neil Cohn, Bruno Cardoso, Bien Klomberg, Irmak Hacımusaoğlu
Published in: Language Resources and Evaluation, 2023, ISSN 1574-020X
Publisher: Springer Verlag
DOI: 10.1007/s10579-023-09673-0

Whoosh! visual depictions of direction, speed, and temporality: a corpus analysis of motion events in global comics

Author(s): Irmak Hacımusaoğlu, Bruno Cardoso, Neil Cohn
Published in: Multimodal Communication, Issue 14, 2025, Page(s) 361-380, ISSN 2230-6587
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH
DOI: 10.1515/mc-2025-0006

Navigating meaning in the spatial layouts of comics: A cross-cultural corpus analysis

Author(s): Irmak Hacımusaoğlu, Bien Klomberg, Neil Cohn
Published in: Visual Cognition, 2023, ISSN 1350-6285
Publisher: Psychology Press
DOI: 10.1080/13506285.2023.2198271

Going with the comics flow: a theoretical and empirical basis for flow in comics

Author(s): Neil Cohn, Filip van der Vegt, Fred Atilla, Bruno Cardoso
Published in: Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 2025, Page(s) 1-18, ISSN 2150-4857
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2025.2593920

Continuity, Co-reference, and Inference in Visual Sequencing

Author(s): Bien Klomberg, Irmak Hacımusaoğlu, Lenneke Doris Lichtenberg, Joost Schilperoord, Neil Cohn
Published in: Glossa: a journal of general linguistics, Issue 8(1), 2023, ISSN 2397-1835
Publisher: Open Library of Humanities
DOI: 10.16995/glossa.9982

The Meaning of Motion Lines?: A Review of Theoretical and Empirical Research on Static Depiction of Motion

Author(s): Irmak Hacımusaoğlu, Neil Cohn
Published in: Cognitive Science, 2023, ISSN 0364-0213
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
DOI: 10.1111/cogs.13377

Are We Moving Too Fast?: Representation of Speed in Static Images

Author(s): Irmak Hacımusaoğlu, Neil Cohn
Published in: Journal of Cognition, Issue 8, 2025, ISSN 2514-4820
Publisher: Ubiquity Press
DOI: 10.5334/joc.404

When (not) to establish a new category

Author(s): Ana Krajinović, Jozina vander Klok, Kilu von Prince
Published in: Studies in Language, 2025, ISSN 0378-4177
Publisher: J. Benjamins Pub. Co.
DOI: 10.1075/sl.23066.kra

Linguistic Typology of Motion Events in Visual Narratives

Author(s): Irmak Hacımusaoğlu, Neil Cohn
Published in: Cognitive Semiotics, 2022, ISSN 2235-2066
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/cogsem-2022-2013

Background check: cross-cultural differences in the spatial context of comic scenes

Author(s): Fred Atilla, Bien Klomberg, Bruno Cardoso, Neil Cohn
Published in: Multimodal Communication, 2023, ISSN 2230-6587
Publisher: De Gruyter
DOI: 10.1515/mc-2023-0027

Processing Incongruity for Mental Events in Comics: Contours of Character Inferences

Author(s): Bien Klomberg, Klavdiia Fadeeva, Joost Schilperoord, Neil Cohn
Published in: Metaphor and Symbol, Issue 40, 2025, Page(s) 51-75, ISSN 1092-6488
Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates Inc.
DOI: 10.1080/10926488.2024.2417215

Conference proceedings (2)

The Multimodal Annotation Software Tool (MAST)

Author(s): Bruno Cardoso, Neil Cohn
Published in: Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2022), Issue LREC 2022, 2022, Page(s) 6822–6828
Publisher: European Language Resources Association (ELRA)

Drawing Insights: Sequential Representation Learning in Comics

Author(s): Sam Titarsolej, Neil Cohn, Nanne Van Noord
Published in: 35th British Machine Vision Conference 2024, (BMVC) 2024, Issue November 25-28, 2024, 2024, Page(s) 1-13
Publisher: Glasgow, UK

Monographic books (1)

TINTIN Project Documentation: Visual Language Theory Annotation Guides

Author(s): Neil Cohn, Irmak Hacımusaoğlu, Bien Klomberg, Ana Krajinović
Published in: 2024, ISBN 978-94-6522-283-7
Publisher: Visual Language Lab, Tilburg University