The literature on enactment effects revealed that memory for sentences is improved when individuals perform the action during the encoding phase; also, the literature on gestures showed a facilitating effect of co-speech gestures on comprehension and memory. The aim of this paper is to advance a mental model account of the beneficial effects of enactment, and to extend such an account to the facilitatory effect of co-speech gestures. Following the tenets of mental model theory, we argued that gestures, both observed and produced, favor the construction of a text/discourse mental model
A mental model account of enactment effects / I. Cutica, M. Bucciarelli - In: Atti dell’ 8. convegno nazionale AISC 2011 / [a cura di] F. Rubinacci, A. Rega, N. Lettieri. - Napoli : Università degli studi Federico 2., 2011. - ISBN 978-88-904539-4-6. - pp. 78-82 (( Intervento presentato al 8. convegno Ottavo convegno dell' Associazione italiana scienze cognitive tenutosi a Milano nel 2011.
A mental model account of enactment effects
I. CuticaPrimo
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2011
Abstract
The literature on enactment effects revealed that memory for sentences is improved when individuals perform the action during the encoding phase; also, the literature on gestures showed a facilitating effect of co-speech gestures on comprehension and memory. The aim of this paper is to advance a mental model account of the beneficial effects of enactment, and to extend such an account to the facilitatory effect of co-speech gestures. Following the tenets of mental model theory, we argued that gestures, both observed and produced, favor the construction of a text/discourse mental model
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