When reading comics, do people monitor the protagonist’s spatial shifts in their mental representations of the depicted environment? To answer that, we examined the location effect, that is, the we...

 If you've taken Linguistics 101, you know what language is. It's a system for conveying meaning through speech. We build words out of sounds, and then complex ideas out of those words. Remarkabl...

Pictures are often thought to be fairly simple compared to language. Where language is known to use patterns in a vocabulary and grammar, pictures are often thought to just reflect what people see, an...