Seeing or acting? The effect of performing gestures on foreign language vocabulary learning

AB García-Gámez, Ó Cervilla… - Language Teaching …, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
We evaluate the impact of gestures during the teaching of vocabulary in a foreign language
(FL). Spanish speakers learned words in a FL in four gesture conditions according to the …

The impact of speakers' multimodal behaviours on adults' learning of semantic information: A corpus-based investigation

C Edwards, F Cabiddu, H Hill-Payne… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - escholarship.org
Adults often learn new semantic information in face-to-face communication with other adults
(eg, teachers, colleagues). More knowledgeable individuals provide an ensemble of …

What Is Your Other Hand Doing, Robot? A Model of Behavior for Shopkeeper Robot's Idle Hand

X Pan, M Doering, T Kanda - Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
In retail settings, a robot's one-handed manipulation of objects can come across as
thoughtless and impolite, thus creating a negative customer experience. To solve this …

Early or synchronized gestures facilitate speech recall—a study based on motion capture data

J Nirme, A Gulz, M Haake, M Gullberg - Frontiers in Psychology, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Temporal co-ordination between speech and gestures has been thoroughly
studied in natural production. In most cases gesture strokes precede or coincide with the …

[HTML][HTML] La influencia de los gestos y de las imágenes en la memoria de palabras

I Sánchez-Borges, CJ Álvarez - cienciacognitiva.org
Los gestos son parte esencial del proceso comunicativo y diversos estudios han
demostrado que pueden mejorar el recuerdo de las palabras a las que se asocian. Sin …