Visual narratives of sequential images–as found in comics, picture stories, and storyboards–
are often thought to provide a fairly universal and transparent message that requires minimal …

Abstract Visual Language Theory (VLT) argues that the structure of drawn images is guided
by similar cognitive principles as language, foremost a “narrative grammar” that guides the …

The past decade has seen a rapid growth of cognitive and brain research focused on visual
narratives like comics and picture stories. This paper will summarize and integrate this …

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 …

Visual narratives sometimes depict successive images with different characters in the same
physical space; corpus analysis has revealed that this occurs more often in Japanese …

The comprehension of visual narratives requires paying attention to certain elements and
integrating them across a sequence of images. To study this process, we developed a new …

The question of how we understand sequences of communicative images applies equally to
static sequential images–as in the visual narratives found in comics–and to moving …

Recently, there has been a surge of interest in the relationship between film and cognitive
science. This is reflected in a new science of cinema that can help us both to understand this …

Based on previous research on multimedia learning and text comprehension, an eye-
tracking study was conducted to examine the influence of audio text coherence on visual …

Contemporary digital news packages (packages) frequently embed media elements such as
motion graphics alongside the story's primary content. A motion graphic uses animated two …