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Bridgeman, Teresa. 2004. Keeping an eye on things: attention, tracking, and coherence-building. Belphégor 4 (1).

Driest, Joris. 2005. Subjective Narration in Comics. Masters Thesis. Utrecht University.

Estep, Joanna. 2006. Timing: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 .www.newsrama.com

Fein, Ofer, and Kasher, Asa. 1996. How to do Things with Words and Gestures in Comics. Journal of Pragmatics, Vol. 26.6. Pp. 793-808

Lacassin, Francis. 1972. The Comic Strip and Film Language. Film Quarterly, 26(1), 11-23.

Laraudogoitia, Jon Pérez. 2008. The Comic as a Binary Language: An Hypothesis on Comic Structure. Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 15 (2):111-135.

Liddell, Christine.1997. Every Picture Tells a Story—or Does It?: Young South African Children Interpreting Pictures.Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology, Vol. 28.3. Pp. 266-83.

Nagai, Masayoshi, Nobutaka Endo, and Kumada Takatsune. 2007. "Measuring Brain Activities Related to Understanding Using near-Infrared Spectroscopy (Nirs)." In Human Interface and the Management of Information. Methods, Techniques and Tools in Information Design, 884-93. Heidelberg: Springer Berlin

Nakazawa, Jun. 2005. Development of Manga (Comic Book) Literacy in Children. In Applied Developmental Psychology: Theory, Practice, and Research from Japan, edited by D. W. Shwalb, J. Nakazawa and B. J. Shwalb. Greenwich, Connecticut: Information Age Publishing.

Nielsen, Jesper, and Wichmann, Søren. 2000. America’s First Comics? Techniques, Contents, and Functions of Sequential Text-Image Pairings in the Classic Maya Period. In Comics and Culture. pp. 59-77

Omori, Takahide, Taku Ishii, and Keiko Kurata. 2004. Eye catchers in comics: Controlling eye movements in reading pictorial and textual media. In 28th International Congress of Psychology. Beijing, China.

Raecke Jochen. 1999. Using Comics as Data for Research into the Connection between Pointing Gestures and Deictics. In E. André, M. Poesio, and H. Rieser (eds). Proceedings of the Workshop on Deixis, Demonstration, and Deictic Belief at ESSLLI XI.

Saraceni, Mario. 2000. Language Beyond Language: Comics as verbo-visual texts. Doctoral Dissertation. University of Nottingham

Saraceni, Mario. 2001. Relatedness: Aspects of Textual Connectivity in Comics. In The Graphic Novel. pp. 167-179

Saraceni, Mario. 2003. The Language of Comics. New York, NY: Routelage

Smith, Nancy R. 1985. Copying and Artistic Behaviors: Children and Comic Strips. Studies in Art Education.Vol. 26(3). Pp. 147-156

Walker, Mort. 1980. The Lexicon of Comicana. Port Chester, NY: Comicana, Inc

Weber, Heinz J. 1989. Elements of Text-Based and Image-Based Connectedness in Comic Stories, and Some Analogies to Cinema and Written Text. In M. Conte, J. Petofi, & E. Sozer (eds). Text and Connectedness: Proceedings of the Conference on Connexity and Coherence, Urbino, Italy, July 16-21 1984. Pp. 337-360

Wellman, Henry M., Hollander, Michelle, and Schult, Carolyn A. 1996. Young Children’s Understanding of Thought Bubbles and Thoughts. Child Development, Vol. 67, pp. 768-788

Wellman, Henry M, et al. 2002. Thought-bubbles help children with autism acquire an alternative to a theory of mind. Autism, Vol. 6, No. 4, pp. 343

Wilson, Brent, and Marjorie Wilson. 1977 "An Iconoclastic View of the Imagery Sources in the Drawings of Young People." Art Education, Vol. 30.1, Pp.4-12.

Wilson, Brent, and Wilson, Marjorie. 1987. Pictorial Composition and Narrative Structure: Themes and the Creation of Meaning in the Drawings of Egyptian and Japanese Children. Visual Arts Research, Vol. 12, No. 2 (Issue 26). Illinois: University of Illinois

Yannicopoulou, Angela. 2004. Visual Aspects of Written Texts: Preschoolers View Comics. L1- Educational Studies in Language and Literature, Vol. 4, pp. 169-18


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