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- Title
The Deep Versus the Shallow: Effects of Co-Speech Gestures in Learning From Discourse.
- Authors
Cutica, Ilaria; Bucciarelli, Monica
- 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.
- Subjects
GESTURE; DISCOURSE; BODY language; NONVERBAL cues; LEARNING; ORAL communication; DELIBERATION; NONVERBAL communication; COGNITIVE science
- Publication
Cognitive Science, 2008, Vol 32, Issue 5, p921
- ISSN
0364-0213
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1080/03640210802222039