Timing of Gestures: Gestures Anticipating or Simultaneous with Speech as Indexes of Text Comprehension in Children and Adults

Autor/inn/en	Ianì, Francesco; Cutica, Ilaria; Bucciarelli, Monica
Titel	Timing of Gestures: Gestures Anticipating or Simultaneous with Speech as Indexes of Text Comprehension in Children and Adults
Quelle	In: Cognitive Science, 41 (2017), S.1549-1566 (18 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0364-0213
DOI	10.1111/cogs.12381
Schlagwörter	Children; Adults; Reading Comprehension; Reader Text Relationship; Recall (Psychology); Models; Nonverbal Communication; Text Structure + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Child; Kind; Kinder; Leseverstehen; Abberufung; Analogiemodell; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Textstruktur
Abstract	The deep comprehension of a text is tantamount to the construction of an articulated mental model of that text. The number of correct recollections is an index of a learner's mental model of a text. We assume that another index of comprehension is the timing of the gestures produced during text recall; gestures are simultaneous with speech when the learner has built an articulated mental model of the text, whereas they anticipate the speech when the learner has built a less articulated mental model. The results of four experiments confirm the predictions deriving from our assumptions for both children and adults. Provided that the recollections are correct, the timing of gestures can differ and can be considered a further measure of the quality of the mental model, beyond the number of correct recollections. (As Provided).
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