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Processing Incongruity for Mental Events in Comics: Contours of Character Inferences.

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Title: Processing Incongruity for Mental Events in Comics: Contours of Character Inferences.
Authors: Klomberg, Bien (AUTHOR), Fadeeva, Klavdiia (AUTHOR), Schilperoord, Joost (AUTHOR), Cohn, Neil (AUTHOR)
Source: Metaphor & Symbol. Jan-Mar2025, Vol. 40 Issue 1, p51-75. 25p.
Subjects: Comedians, Comic books, strips, etc., Narratives, Cost, Forecasting
Abstract: Visual narratives, like comics, at times show depictions of characters' imagination, dreams, or flashbacks, which seem incongruent with the ongoing primary narrative. Such "domain constructions" thus integrate an auxiliary domain (e.g. a dream) within the primary domain (the expected, physical storyworld), and may require readers to resolve seemingly non-co-referential figures as co-referential (e.g. when a character's dream shows that character as an animal). In three self-paced reading experiments, we investigate the processing and understanding of single vs. multiple domains in sequences with co-reference issues (Exp. 1) and whether graphic cues facilitate such domain switches (Exp. 2 and 3). Domain switches incurred greater updating costs but were comprehensible, with greater similarity across panels predicting faster processing, and comic reading experience affecting viewing times. The successful integration of fantasized agents which seem to lack co-reference implies that visual narrative comprehension goes beyond event and scene perception alone, but also involves proficiency in conventional constructions related to perspective-taking and inferencing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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  Data: Visual narratives, like comics, at times show depictions of characters' imagination, dreams, or flashbacks, which seem incongruent with the ongoing primary narrative. Such "domain constructions" thus integrate an auxiliary domain (e.g. a dream) within the primary domain (the expected, physical storyworld), and may require readers to resolve seemingly non-co-referential figures as co-referential (e.g. when a character's dream shows that character as an animal). In three self-paced reading experiments, we investigate the processing and understanding of single vs. multiple domains in sequences with co-reference issues (Exp. 1) and whether graphic cues facilitate such domain switches (Exp. 2 and 3). Domain switches incurred greater updating costs but were comprehensible, with greater similarity across panels predicting faster processing, and comic reading experience affecting viewing times. The successful integration of fantasized agents which seem to lack co-reference implies that visual narrative comprehension goes beyond event and scene perception alone, but also involves proficiency in conventional constructions related to perspective-taking and inferencing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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