Describe your research in one page: Comic Abstracts
Working with Dr. Anne Churchland, a neurobiologist at UCLA, to create the comic “Decision-Making!” was a wonderful experience. Scripting the comic allowed us to learn about Dr. Churchland’s work on the relationship between excitatory neurons and decision-making behaviors.
It also presented us with the challenge of taking such vast and important research, and working it into a one-page comic to serve as an abstract for the work.
Our creators sought to summarize and highlight the main points of the research and pair that information with vibrant images that convey both the science and the research process. We wanted to offer an entry point into Dr. Churchland’s study for anyone interested in advancements in the field of neuroscience, whether they be fellow academics or lay readers.
This type of abstract can draw attention from your peers to your innovative research. A one-page comic is easy to consume and can be shared in a vast array of places, such as social media. The images and colors of a comic grab people’s attention much more easily than a traditional abstract found at the beginning of a research paper. We believe the pairing of academics and comics helps take academic research to new places and in front of new eyes. And that is our goal with each new comic we create.
Post by Travis B. Hill.
