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Lab News:
The Lab welcomes new PhD students Lenneke Lichtenberg, Maryam Torabi, and Prajwal Prakash to the PICTREE Project!
Neil Cohn received an ERC Consolidator grant to study the neuroscience of pictures and comics!
Congrats to Lenneke Lichtenberg on her first paper, “Understanding lightbulb moments”!
Upcoming Speaking
Sept. 12-14, 2025. Keynote. Japanese Cognitive Science Society Meeting, Tokyo, Japan
Sept. 21-24, 2025. Keynote. Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, Poland
Feb. 21-23, 2026. Keynote. Iconicity in Language and Literature/IcoSem 2026. Nagoya, Japan
Recent publications
- Lichtenberg, Lenneke Doris, Bien Klomberg, Joost Schilperoord, and Neil Cohn. 2025. Understanding Lightbulb Moments: Meaning-making in visual morphology from comics and emoji. Memory and Cognition
- Krajinović, Ana, Irmak Hacımusaoğlu, Bruno Cardoso, and Neil Cohn. 2025. Mark the unexpected! Animacy preference and goal-directed movement in visual language. Cognitive Science 49 (5):e70067
- Upadhyayula, Aditya and Neil Cohn. 2025. A computational framework to study hierarchical processing in visual narratives. Cognitive Science. 49(5): e70050
- Cohn, Neil, Fred Atilla, Lenneke Lichtenberg, and Bruno Cardoso. 2025. The influence of writing systems on comics layouts. Cognition 260 (106136):1-8.
- Lindfors, Hanna, Kristina Hansson, Neil Cohn, Annika Andersson. 2025. Similarities in semantic processing across verbal and pictorial domains in school children with developmental language disorder. Frontiers in Psychology. 16
- Cohn, Neil and Joost Schilperoord. 2025. Language Acquisition in the Multimodal Parallel Architecture: A commentary on Karadöller, Sümer and Özyürek. First Language.
Emoji Research
Latest Blog Post
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2022: My publications in review
I’m a little late to post it, but in keeping with my annual tradition, here’s a rundown of all the papers I published in 2022. There were a lot of […]