Neil Cohn, Date of Birth
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American cognitive scientist
Date of Birth: 11-Jan-1980
Profession: cognitive scientist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
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About Neil Cohn
- Neil Cohn (; born 1980) is an American cognitive scientist and comics theorist.
- 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.
- His theories have examined the linguistic status of emoji.
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