Speakers sometimes convey information in their gestures that they do not convey in the accompanying speech. The present study examined whether individual differences in the production of non-redundant gesture–speech combinations are related to individual differences in speakers’ spatial and verbal skills. We classified speakers as spatial dominant, verbal dominant, or equally matched on the basis of the difference in their performance on a spatial visualization test and a verbal fluency test. We used the coding procedure developed by Alibali et al. (2009) to code speakers’ gesture–speech redundancy as they narrated an animated cartoon. Spatial-dominant speakers produced a higher proportion of non-redundant gesture–speech combinations than other speakers. The results suggest that some speakers may use non-redundant gesture–speech combinations as a communicative strategy that enables them to capitalize on their strong imagistic representations.
Abner, Natasha, Kensy Cooperrider & Susan Goldin‐Meadow
2015. Gesture for Linguists: A Handy Primer. Language and Linguistics Compass 9:11 ► pp. 437 ff.
Abramov, Olga, Friederike Kern, Sofia Koutalidis, Ulrich Mertens, Katharina Rohlfing & Stefan Kopp
2021. The Relation Between Cognitive Abilities and the Distribution of Semantic Features Across Speech and Gesture in 4‐year‐olds. Cognitive Science 45:7
Alibali, Martha W., Amelia Yeo, Autumn B. Hostetter & Sotaro Kita
2022. Aging, Gesture Production, and Disfluency in Speech: A Comparison of Younger and Older Adults. Cognitive Science 46:2
Bergmann, Kirsten, Sebastian Kahl & Stefan Kopp
2013. Modeling the Semantic Coordination of Speech and Gesture under Cognitive and Linguistic Constraints. In Intelligent Virtual Agents [Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 8108], ► pp. 203 ff.
2023. Gesture use in L1-Turkish and L2-English: Evidence from emotional narrative retellings. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 76:8 ► pp. 1797 ff.
Hostetter, Autumn & Elina Mainela-Arnold
2015. Gestures Occur With Spatial and Motoric Knowledge: It's More Than Just Coincidence. Perspectives on Language Learning and Education 22:2 ► pp. 42 ff.
Hostetter, Autumn B. & Martha W. Alibali
2019. Gesture as simulated action: Revisiting the framework. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review 26:3 ► pp. 721 ff.
KERN, Friederike, Ulrich BODEN, Anne NEMETH, Sofia KOUTALIDIS, Olga ABRAMOV, Stefan KOPP & Katharina J. ROHLFING
2024. Preschool children’s discourse competence in different genres and how it relates to iconic gestures. Journal of Child Language► pp. 1 ff.
Kita, Sotaro & Karen Emmorey
2023. Gesture links language and cognition for spoken and signed languages. Nature Reviews Psychology 2:7 ► pp. 407 ff.
2016. Spontaneous Gesture Production and Lexical Abilities in Children With Specific Language Impairment in a Naming Task. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 59:4 ► pp. 784 ff.
Mainela‐Arnold, Elina, Martha W. Alibali, Autumn B. Hostetter & Julia L. Evans
2014. Gesture–speech integration in children with specific language impairment. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 49:6 ► pp. 761 ff.
Rombouts, Ellen, Liesl Leenen, Bea Maes & Inge Zink
2023. Gesture–speech integration is related to vocabulary skills in children with developmental language disorder, Williams syndrome and typical development. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 58:1 ► pp. 206 ff.
Tscholl, Michael, Jason Morphew & Robb Lindgren
2021. Inferences on enacted understanding: using immersive technologies to assess intuitive physical science knowledge. Information and Learning Sciences 122:7/8 ► pp. 503 ff.
Wu, Ying Choon & Seana Coulson
2014. Co-speech iconic gestures and visuo-spatial working memory. Acta Psychologica 153 ► pp. 39 ff.
Zhao, Wanying
2023. TMS reveals a two-stage priming circuit of gesture-speech integration. Frontiers in Psychology 14
Özer, Demet & Tilbe Göksun
2020. Visual-spatial and verbal abilities differentially affect processing of gestural vs. spoken expressions. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 35:7 ► pp. 896 ff.
Özer, Demet & Tilbe Göksun
2020. Gesture Use and Processing: A Review on Individual Differences in Cognitive Resources. Frontiers in Psychology 11
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