In a literary form such as comics that combines images and texts punctuation is due to play a specific function. From its invention in the beginning of the 19th century, creators like Topffer or Dore played with it, especially the expressive signs, imitating what happened at the same time in numerous novels. The habit of overloading the images,…

Damage to the areas of the brain that are responsible for higher visual processing can lead to severe cerebral visual impairment (CVI). The prognosis for higher cognitive visual functions in children with CVI is not well described. We therefore present our six-year follow-up of a boy with CVI and highlight intervention approaches that have proved…

We frequently encounter groups of similar objects in our visual environment: a bed of flowers, a basket of oranges, a crowd of people. How does the visual system process such redundancy? Research shows that rather than code every element in a texture, the visual system favors a summary statistical representation of all the elements. The authors…