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What's your neural function, visual narrative conjunction? Grammar, meaning, and fluency in sequential image processing

Overview of attention for article published in Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, May 2017
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What's your neural function, visual narrative conjunction? Grammar, meaning, and fluency in sequential image processing
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Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, May 2017
DOI 10.1186/s41235-017-0064-5
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Neil Cohn, Marta Kutas

Abstract

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 manga than American comics. We used event-related brain potentials to determine whether comprehension of "visual narrative conjunctions" invokes not only incremental mental updating as traditionally assumed, but also, as we propose, "grammatical" combinatoric processing. We thus crossed (non)/conjunction sequences with character (in)/congruity. Conjunctions elicited a larger anterior negativity (300-500 ms) than nonconjunctions, regardless of congruity, implicating "grammatical" processes. Conjunction and incongruity both elicited larger P600s (500-700 ms), indexing updating. Both conjunction effects were modulated by participants' frequency of reading manga while growing up. Greater anterior negativity in frequent manga readers suggests more reliance on combinatoric processing; larger P600 effects in infrequent manga readers suggest more resources devoted to mental updating. As in language comprehension, it seems that processing conjunctions in visual narratives is not just mental updating but also partly grammatical, conditioned by comic readers' experience with specific visual narrative structures.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 19 35%
Researcher 6 11%
Student > Master 6 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 3 5%
Lecturer 2 4%
Other 6 11%
Unknown 13 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Arts and Humanities 12 22%
Psychology 8 15%
Linguistics 7 13%
Computer Science 4 7%
Design 3 5%
Other 7 13%
Unknown 14 25%
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