26 | How does the brain understand comic books?

Making sense of a series of graphic representations is not simple, but our brains manage to do it with little effort. Our conversation with Neil Cohn starts out with a rethinking of language, moving from an understanding built solely on spoken language to the ability to express meaning across a range of modalities. This moves us into Neil's work on how we develop the ability to understand visual narratives and what this means for our understanding of language as a whole. We chat about emojis, comics, children's books, and a bunch of other fun stuff.   Guest: Neil Cohn (personal website) Co-Host: Xueyi Yao   Links to everything on the Monkey Dance website: https://www.monkeydancepod.com/episodes/episode-26