The deep versus the shallow: Effects of co-speech gestures in learning from discourse

Ilaria Cutica; Monica Bucciarelli

doi:10.1080/03640210802222039

The deep versus the shallow: Effects of co-speech gestures in learning from discourse

Ilaria Cutica, Monica Bucciarelli

Istituto Europeo di Oncologia

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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
Pages (from-to)	921-935
Number of pages	15
Journal	Cognitive Science
Volume	32
Issue number	5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/03640210802222039
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

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