Abstract
This study concerned the role of gestures that accompany discourse in deep learning processes. We assumed that co-speech gestures favor the construction of a complete mental representation of the discourse content, and we tested the predictions that a discourse accompanied by gestures, as compared with a discourse not accompanied by gestures, should result in better recollection of conceptual information, a greater number of discourse-based inferences drawn from the information explicitly stated in the discourse, and poorer recognition of verbatim of the discourse. The results of three experiments confirmed these predictions.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 921-935 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Cognitive Science |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - Jul 2008 |
Keywords
- Co-speech gestures
- Deep learning
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Artificial Intelligence
- Cognitive Neuroscience
- Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
- Human Factors and Ergonomics
- Linguistics and Language