doctoral_advisor fields workplaces birth_date article_title academic_advisors name alma_mater
ray jackendoff , gina kuperberg , phillip holcomb cognitive science , linguistics , comics studies ucsd 11 january 1980 neil cohn
 marta kutas , jeff elman neil cohn tufts , university of chicago , uc berkeley
neil cohn

neil cohn is an american cognitive scientist and comic author .
his research offers the first serious scientific study of the cognition of understanding comics , and uses an interdisciplinary approach combining aspects of theoretical and corpus linguistics with cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience .
cohn 's work argues that common cognitive capacities underlie the processing of various expressive domains , especially verbal and signed languages and what he calls `` visual language '' -- the structure and cognition of drawings and visual narratives , particularly those found in comics .
cohn spent several years as an independent scholar before studying under linguist ray jackendoff and psychologists gina kuperberg and phillip holcomb at tufts university where he received his phd in psychology in 2012 .
since graduating , he has been a postdoctoral fellow at uc san diego working with marta kutas and jeff elman .
he is the son of leigh cohn and lindsey hall .
