Department of Communciation and Cognition, Tilburg School of Humanities and Digital Sciences, Tilburg Center for Cognition and Communication, Tilburg Unviersity.
Department of Learning Sciences at the College of Education & Human Development, Georgia State University.
Top Cogn Sci. 2020 Jan;12(1):197-223. doi: 10.1111/tops.12473. Epub 2019 Dec 22.
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 instruction manuals to comics. They also appear prevalently as stimuli across Cognitive Science, for studies of temporal cognition, event structure, social cognition, discourse, and basic intelligence. Yet, despite this fundamental place in human expression and research on cognition, the study of visual narratives themselves has only recently gained traction in Cognitive Science. This work has suggested that visual narrative comprehension requires cultural exposure across a developmental trajectory and engages with domain-general processing mechanisms shared by visual perception, attention, event cognition, and language, among others. Here, we review the relevance of such research for the broader Cognitive Science community, and make the case for why researchers should join the scholarship of this ubiquitous but understudied aspect of human expression.
手绘序列图像是人类最古老的智能记录之一，出现在洞穴壁画、墙壁雕刻和古代陶器上，并且从说明书到漫画，在各种文化中都普遍存在。它们也作为认知科学研究中的刺激物出现，用于研究时间认知、事件结构、社会认知、话语和基本智力。然而，尽管在人类表达和认知研究中具有如此基础的地位，但视觉叙事本身的研究直到最近才在认知科学中得到关注。这项工作表明，视觉叙事理解需要在发展轨迹上进行文化接触，并与视觉感知、注意力、事件认知和语言等领域的一般处理机制相联系。在这里，我们回顾了此类研究对更广泛的认知科学界的相关性，并提出了为什么研究人员应该加入这一无处不在但研究不足的人类表达领域的学术研究的理由。
