Although research has shown that adults can benefit from the presence of beat gestures in
word recall tasks, studies have failed to conclusively generalize these findings to preschool …

Although the positive effects of iconic gestures on word recall and comprehension by
children have been clearly established, less is known about the benefits of beat gestures …

Abundant research has shown that encoding meaningful gesture, such as an iconic gesture,
enhances memory. This paper asked whether gesture needs to carry meaning to improve …

Iconic and pointing gestures are important precursors of children's early language and
cognitive development. While beat gestures seem to have positive effects on the recall of …

Gesture is an integral part of language development. While recent evidence shows that
observing a speaker who is simultaneously producing beat gestures helps preschoolers …

It is clear that gestural cues facilitate early word learning. In hopes of illuminating the relative
contributions of attentional and socio-pragmatic factors to the mechanisms by which these …

A longitudinal study with 45 children (Hispanic, 13%; non‐Hispanic, 87%) investigated
whether the early production of non‐referential beat and flip gestures, as opposed to …

In development, children often use gesture to communicate before they use words. The
question is whether these gestures merely precede language development or are …

This study examined (a) how observing different types of gestures while listening to a story
affected the recall of path and event information in 5-year-old children (n= 71) and adults (n …

At the one-word stage children use gesture to supplement their speech ('eat'+ point at
cookie), and the onset of such supplementary gesture-speech combinations predicts the …