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) …

Vision-language models have recently evolved into versatile systems capable of high
performance across a range of tasks, such as document understanding, visual question …

Conducting research with young participants presents numerous challenges, particularly in
terms of representation as the researcher endeavours to listen to children's voices in order to …

We often talk about our narrative experiences with others. For example, we might talk about
the latest TV show or book in a series with friends. How does the media of a narrative (text …

These disparate opinions taught me a few things. First off, since people advocated for
various methods, it told me that this visual language could be studied in all the ways that we …

To understand narratives, comprehenders need to establish to what extent various
expressions refer to the same entity, known as co-reference. Research in linguistics has …

Comics have been used as a tool for learning, teaching, understanding, raising awareness
and changing behaviours. Researchers are taking more advantage of this medium as …

Visual narratives make use of various means to convey referential and co-referential
meaning, so comprehenders must recognize that different depictions across sequential …

Language is typically embedded in multimodal communication, yet models of linguistic
competence do not often incorporate this complexity. Meanwhile, speech, gesture, and/or …

Literary narratology has rightly devoted much attention to analysing the source (s) of verbal
information about the story world, usually discussed under the label “narration”, and to any …