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'The More You Gesture, the Less I Gesture': Co-Speech Gestures as a Measure of Mental Model Quality.
- Source :
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Journal of Nonverbal Behavior . Sep2011, Vol. 35 Issue 3, p173-187. 15p. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- Studies in the literature have revealed that a speaker's co-speech gestures favor the construction of a complete and articulated mental model of the discourse by the listener; moreover, from the literature on co-speech gestures we know that they help the speaker to organize the stream of thought. Given these data, we hypothesized that a person who listens to a discourse accompanied by gestures would produce fewer co-speech gestures in recollecting the discourse compared to a person who listens to a discourse not accompanied by gestures. The analysis of the co-speech gestures produced by the participants in two experiments while recollecting the content of a discourse confirmed our predictions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 01915886
- Volume :
- 35
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 104654568
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-011-0112-7