About this episode
We talk with Neil Cohn, an Eisner-nominated cognitive scientist who looks at how our brains perceive comics. His latest book, Speaking in Pictures, challenges the conventional understandings of how pictures communicate, how people learn to draw, and the nature of language itself. And Peanuts was fundamental to his ground-breaking research.
https://www.visuallanguagelab.com/ @neilcohn.bsky.social @thevisuallinguist on Instagram
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