Drawn sequences of images are among our oldest records of human intelligence, appearing on cave paintings, wall carvings, and ancient pottery, and they pervade across cultures from instruction manuals to comics. They also appear prevalently as stimuli across Cognitive Science, for studies of temporal cognition, event structure, social cognition, discourse, and basic intelligence. Yet, despite this fundamental place in human expression and research on cognition, the study of visual narratives themselves has only recently gained traction in Cognitive Science. This work has suggested that visual narrative comprehension requires cultural exposure across a developmental trajectory and engages with domain‐general processing mechanisms shared by visual perception, attention, event cognition, and language, among others. Here, we review the relevance of such research for the broader Cognitive Science community, and make the case for why researchers should join the scholarship of this ubiquitous but understudied aspect of human expression.

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编者介绍与评论：视觉叙事研究：认知科学的一个新兴领域

绘制的图像序列是我们最古老的人类智慧记录之一，出现在洞穴壁画、壁雕和古代陶器上，它们遍及从说明书到漫画的各种文化。它们也普遍作为认知科学中的刺激物出现，用于研究时间认知、事件结构、社会认知、话语和基础智力。然而，尽管在人类表达和认知研究中占有重要地位，但视觉叙事本身的研究直到最近才在认知科学中获得关注。这项工作表明，视觉叙事理解需要跨越发展轨迹的文化暴露，并与视觉感知、注意力、事件认知和语言等共享的领域一般处理机制相结合。这里，