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Irmak Hacımusaoğlu @cogirmak.bsky.social · 19d

Thanks a lot! 😊

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Irmak Hacımusaoğlu @cogirmak.bsky.social · 19d

How come i didn't think of it :D

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Irmak Hacımusaoğlu @cogirmak.bsky.social · 19d

With different cues, it’s possible to explicitly indicate direction, convey varying levels of speed (especially with more lines) and even depict multiple moments. I love this work, even though it pushed back my defense time. Curiosity matters more to me 🥹

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Irmak Hacımusaoğlu @cogirmak.bsky.social · 19d

Images don’t necessarily show a single frozen moment. Look how they can depict multiple moments at once:

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Irmak Hacımusaoğlu @cogirmak.bsky.social · 19d

I was mesmerized by the idea that something static can convey not only motion but also temporality, and I decided to test it empirically. It wasn’t an easy task, as the way our data was organized didn’t make it straightforward. But now, here is our paper!
♥️ www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...

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Irmak Hacımusaoğlu @cogirmak.bsky.social · Jun 18

My dissertation got approved!!!The only thing left is to defend it, pls wish me luck. (You have almost 6 months to wish me luck, so should be good). 🫶🏻

www.tilburguniversity.edu/current/even...

PhD Defense Irmak Hacımusaoğlu | Tilburg University

The dynamic out of the static: Representation of motion and spatiotemporality in static images

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Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · May 15

In a new paper, @anakrajinovic.bsky.social, @cogirmak.bsky.social, and I show that living vs. non-living entities are marked differently for motion in graphics. This is similar to spoken languages, so we propose a possible universal across modalities onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Motion lines and circumfixing lines appearing for living and non-living characters in comics panels

Data showing that inanimate entities receive more motion lines than animates across different types of comics

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Irmak Hacımusaoğlu @cogirmak.bsky.social · May 9

I would like to thank Ali Paşaoğlu for the invite and also to my supervisor @neilcohn.bsky.social because he mentioned my name in a podcast, which led to this invitation. Here is the link of the podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/7mbJ...

Neil Cohn, "Who Understands Comics?: Questioning the Universality of Visual Language Comprehension" (Bloomsbury, 2020)

New Books in Comics and Graphic Novels · Episode

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Irmak Hacımusaoğlu @cogirmak.bsky.social · May 9

Yesterday I gave a guest lecture on Visual Language Theory as part of the Architecture and Comics course at MEF University. It was very interesting and we played around with affixation to find new meanings. For example, the one below means being happy with your miserable self!

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Irmak Hacımusaoğlu @cogirmak.bsky.social · Apr 16

Writing articles was not the best at giving me an immediate reward but I guess it pays off 🥳

if you are curious about the paper:

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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Irmak Hacımusaoğlu @cogirmak.bsky.social · Feb 21

Thank you very much Renske! Yes, i can’t believe how fast it goes 🥹

Irmak Hacımusaoğlu @cogirmak.bsky.social · Feb 21

I submitted my dissertation!!!! It was the longest thing I've ever done (I like things I can do in one go). I still can't believe how I did it despite my brain (well, also thanks to my brain). 🧿

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Irmak Hacımusaoğlu @cogirmak.bsky.social · Jan 6

journalofcognition.org/articles/10.... 🤗

Are We Moving Too Fast?: Representation of Speed in Static Images | Journal of Cognition

The Journal of Cognition, the official journal of the European Society for Cognitive Psychology, publishes reviews, empirical articles (including registered reports), data reports, stimulus developmen...

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Irmak Hacımusaoğlu @cogirmak.bsky.social · Jan 6

Finally out! 🚗 💨

Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · Jan 6

I'm excited to announce that @cogirmak.bsky.social and I have a new paper on motion line comprehension! Here she showed different motion cues imply different speeds: "Are We Moving Too Fast?: Representation of Speed in Static Images" journalofcognition.org/articles/10....

Ratings of speed of different motion cues

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Irmak Hacımusaoğlu @cogirmak.bsky.social · Dec 11

Glad to hear that you want to read my work, haha 🙏🏻 once the whole dissertation is published online, i’ll share it here for sure

Irmak Hacımusaoğlu @cogirmak.bsky.social · Dec 11

Interesting! I see he also mentions repetition of curves there. Repeating postures either fully or partially is also another method to indicate motion in static images. Perhaps there’s a parallel between the ways of giving motion to the static body itself and depicting motion in a broader sense

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Irmak Hacımusaoğlu @cogirmak.bsky.social · Dec 11

In the picture above though, they are combined! It does not happen often and in my dissertation I also pose a question about whether it’d ease the motion comprehension if they’re combined. We have not tested this though. It was nice to see this being used in Hergé museum 😊

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Irmak Hacımusaoğlu @cogirmak.bsky.social · Dec 11

In comics, we see motion lines behind movers which can have different shapes such as twirling lines in the picture above. These lines correspond to a path that has been traversed. In case of instructional manuals, we see arrows mostly. They rather show a path yet to be travelled.

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Irmak Hacımusaoğlu @cogirmak.bsky.social · Dec 11

Sure! I am studying the static representation of motion and our work shows there are systematic, patterned ways of depicting motion. For example drawing poses that a figure would take in action or attaching lines behind objects. Depending on which visual narrative system it’s, the methods can vary.

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Irmak Hacımusaoğlu @cogirmak.bsky.social · Dec 10

see, my work is practical too 🙃

Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · Dec 10

This sign at the Herge museum summarizes @cogirmak.bsky.social’s dissertation topic 🏃‍♀️💨

Arrow with motion line from the Herge museum

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Irmak Hacımusaoğlu @cogirmak.bsky.social · Dec 4

such big news! generally he tells me “proud advisor moment” and now it is my turn. proud advisee moment more than ever (well for now, i know he’ll not stop) ♥️

Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · Dec 3

I’m excited to announce that I’ve received an ERC Consolidator Grant to study the cognitive neuroscience of the grammar of pictures and comics! Here’s a mini thread about my upcoming "PICTREE Project" www.tilburguniversity.edu/current/news...

Neil Cohn receives ERC Consolidator Grant for studying the neuroscience of the grammar of pictures | Tilburg University

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...

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Irmak Hacımusaoğlu @cogirmak.bsky.social · Nov 18

spoiler: manga readership makes a difference in interpreting which cues represent faster motion #staytuned

Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · Nov 17

Also, @cogirmak.bsky.social has a new study out soon (now in press) that shows people interpret these various motion cues as differing in how they convey speed. It's a really cool study so I'm sooo excited for that to come out 🏃🏽‍♀️💨

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Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · Nov 14

Go check out this great short talk by my postdoc @anakrajinovic.bsky.social about her work as part of our TINTIN Project on a potential cognitive universal related to marking animacy in motion events in comics and language youtu.be/8Z3Ozin_dco?...

Mark the unexpected! Animacy preference and motion marking in visual language

YouTube video by Ana Krajinovic

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Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · Nov 10

I should add that @cogirmak.bsky.social and @anakrajinovic.bsky.social have been doing great work analyzing the structure of motion events in comics, and Ana has a nice accessible write up of her findings in this article medium.com/anas-stories...

Research on Comics Reveals How We Perceive What Is Alive

I know corals are alive, but they really don’t look like it.

medium.com

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Neil Cohn @neilcohn.bsky.social · Oct 19

Other people to follow… my PhD student @cogirmak.bsky.social studies how graphics like in comics convey motion events, and my postdoc @anakrajinovic.bsky.social studies how comics and language share universal design features, like in this great Medium article she wrote medium.com/anas-stories...

Research on Comics Reveals How We Perceive What Is Alive

I know corals are alive, but they really don’t look like it.

medium.com

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