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.
"The more you Gesture, the less I Gesture": co-speech gestures as a measure of mental model quality / I. Cutica, M. Bucciarelli. - In: JOURNAL OF NONVERBAL BEHAVIOR. - ISSN 0191-5886. - 35:3(2011 Sep), pp. 173-187.
"The more you Gesture, the less I Gesture": co-speech gestures as a measure of mental model quality
I. Cutica
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2011
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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.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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