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  • Computational Linguistics

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  • Visual narratives, particularly Japanese manga, often feature successive images with different characters in the same space.
  • Previous research assumed visual narrative comprehension primarily involves incremental mental updating.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate whether visual narrative conjunctions involve "grammatical" combinatoric processing in addition to mental updating.
  • To explore the neural correlates of processing visual narrative conjunctions using event-related brain potentials (ERPs).

Main Methods:

  • Event-related brain potentials (ERPs) were recorded while participants viewed visual narrative sequences.
  • Stimuli involved crossing conjunction sequences with character congruity/incongruity.
  • Participants' manga reading frequency during childhood was assessed.

Main Results:

  • Conjunctions, irrespective of character congruity, elicited a larger anterior negativity (300-500 ms), suggesting grammatical processing.
  • Both conjunctions and incongruity elicited larger P600 effects (500-700 ms), indicating mental updating.
  • Manga reading frequency modulated ERP effects: frequent readers showed greater anterior negativity, while infrequent readers showed larger P600 effects.

Conclusions:

  • Visual narrative comprehension, like language, involves both grammatical combinatoric processing and mental updating.
  • Individual differences in manga reading experience shape the neural processing of visual narrative structures.
  • The findings suggest that experience with specific visual narrative conventions influences cognitive processing mechanisms.