Raise your hand if you're spatial: Relations between verbal and spatial skills and gesture production

AB Hostetter, MW Alibali - Gesture, 2007 - jbe-platform.com
Individuals differ greatly in how often they gesture when they speak. This study investigated
relations between speakers' verbal and spatial skills and their gesture rates. Two types of …

Spatial development

NS Newcombe, DH Uttal, M Sauter - 2013 - academic.oup.com
This chapter is a selective review of spatial development, stressing several points. First, we
suggest that spatial development can be usefully considered to have two strands:(a) the …

Language comprehension and production in normal aging

R Thornton, LL Light - Handbook of the psychology of aging, 2006 - Elsevier
Publisher Summary Many of the broad models of cognitive aging are simply too general to
account for the diverse range of data. General slowing cannot readily account for processing …

Getting the point: Tracing worked examples enhances learning

FT Hu, P Ginns, J Bobis - Learning and Instruction, 2015 - Elsevier
Embodied cognition and evolutionary educational psychology perspectives suggest pointing
and tracing gestures may enhance learning. Across two experiments, we examine whether …

Language, gesture, action! A test of the Gesture as Simulated Action framework

AB Hostetter, MW Alibali - Journal of Memory and Language, 2010 - Elsevier
The Gesture as Simulated Action (GSA) framework (Hostetter & Alibali, 2008) holds that
representational gestures are produced when actions are simulated as part of thinking and …

Gestures and some key issues in the study of language development

M Gullberg, K De Bot, V Volterra - Gesture, 2008 - jbe-platform.com
The purpose of the current paper is to outline how gestures can contribute to the study of
some key issues in language development. Specifically, we (1) briefly summarise what is …

Effects of different types of hand gestures in persuasive speech on receivers' evaluations

F Maricchiolo, A Gnisci, M Bonaiuto… - Speech Accompanying …, 2020 - taylorfrancis.com
Hand gestures have a close link with speech and with social perception and persuasion
processes, however to date no one has experimentally investigated the role of hand …

Aging, gesture production, and disfluency in speech: A comparison of younger and older adults

B Arslan, T Göksun - Cognitive Science, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Age‐related changes are observed in the speech and gestures of neurotypical individuals.
Older adults are more disfluent in speech and use fewer representational gestures (eg …

Encouraging participant embodiment during VR-assisted public speaking training improves persuasiveness and charisma and reduces anxiety in secondary school …

Ï Valls-Ratés, O Niebuhr, P Prieto - Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Practicing public speaking to simulated audiences created in virtual reality environments is
reported to be effective for reducing public speaking anxiety. However, little is known about …

Competing conceptual representations trigger co-speech representational gestures

S Kita, TS Davies - Language and Cognitive Processes, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Various interconnections between the processing of speech and gesture have been
demonstrated in the literature. However, it is not well understood what cognitive factors …