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The Deep Versus the Shallow: Effects of Co-Speech Gestures in Learning from Discourse
- Source :
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Cognitive Science . Jul 2008 32(5):921-935. - Publication Year :
- 2008
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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. (Contains 6 tables and 3 notes.)
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0364-0213
- Volume :
- 32
- Issue :
- 5
- Database :
- ERIC
- Journal :
- Cognitive Science
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- EJ802903
- Document Type :
- Journal Articles<br />Reports - Research
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03640210802222039