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Gesture production at encoding supports narrative recall
Existing research is inconsistent regarding the effects of gesture production on narrative recall. Most studies have examined the effects of gesture...
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Gesture links language and cognition for spoken and signed languages
Human communication combines language with gesture. Gesture contributes to the uniquely human ability to communicate about an infinite number of...
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Many morphs: Parsing gesture signals from the noise
Parsing signals from noise is a general problem for signallers and recipients, and for researchers studying communicative systems. Substantial...
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Emoji as gesture in digital communication: Emoji improve comprehension of indirect speech
As reliance on digital communication grows, so does the importance of communicating effectively with text. Yet when communicating with text, benefits...
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Examining Phenotypical Heterogeneity and its Underlying Factors in Gesture Skills of Chinese Autistic Children: Clustering Analysis
Purpose: The heterogeneity of autism is well documented, but few studies have studied the heterogeneity of gesture production ability in autistic...
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GesturalOrigins: A bottom-up framework for establishing systematic gesture data across ape species
Current methodologies present significant hurdles to understanding patterns in the gestural communication of individuals, populations, and species....
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Four Functions of Gesture in Promoting Thought Processes
This article discusses four functions of gesture that could promote thought processes: gesture as a tool to ground knowledge through the visual...
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Electrophysiological evidence for the enhancement of gesture-speech integration by linguistic predictability during multimodal discourse comprehension
In face-to-face discourse, listeners exploit cues in the input to generate predictions about upcoming words. Moreover, in addition to speech,...
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Limitations of Variable-Oriented Methodologies: Challenges in Gesture Research and Recommendations for Future Improvements
One critical aspect of modern psychology involves limitations to the currently dominant variable-oriented methodological approach. In this paper, I...
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Identifying Patterns of Similarities and Differences between Gesture Production and Comprehension in Autism and Typical Development
Production and comprehension of gesture emerge early and are key to subsequent language development in typical development. Compared to typically...
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No gesture too small: An investigation into the ability of gestural information to mislead eyewitness accounts by 5- to 8-year-olds
The accuracy of eyewitness interviews has legal and clinical implications within the criminal justice system. Leading verbal suggestions have been...
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Exploring the Meanings of the “Heartfelt” Gesture: A Nonverbal Signal of Heartfelt Emotion and Empathy
We conducted two studies to explore the potential meanings associated with the “heartfelt” gesture, which involves placing one’s hand with a flat...
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Pina Boggi Cavallo and My “Southern Italian Gesture Project”
This chapter is an autobiographic account of a productive international scientific collaboration. The author was invited by Pina Boggi Cavallo to...
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Parental Speech and Gesture Input to Girls Versus Boys in Singletons and Twins
Children show sex differences in early speech development, with girls producing a greater number and variety of words at an earlier age than boys...
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Construing events first-hand: Gesture viewpoints interact with speech to shape the attribution and memory of agency
Beyond conveying objective content about objects and actions, what can co-speech iconic gestures reveal about a speaker’s subjective relationship to...
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Gesture Production in Toddlers with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) demonstrate delayed and atypical communication development. These deficits constitute a core criterion...
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Introducing the NEMO-Lowlands iconic gesture dataset, collected through a gameful human–robot interaction
This paper describes a novel dataset of iconic gestures, together with a publicly available robot-based elicitation method to record these gestures,...
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Gesture during math instruction specifically benefits learners with high visuospatial working memory capacity
BackgroundCharacteristics of both teachers and learners influence mathematical learning. For example, when teachers use hand gestures to support...
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Give your ideas a hand: the role of iconic hand gestures in enhancing divergent creative thinking
Hand gestures play an integral role in multimodal language and communication. Even though the self-oriented functions of gestures, such as activating...
