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 …

When people are asked to perform actions, they remember those actions better than if they
are asked to talk about the same actions. But when people talk, they often gesture with their …

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 …

An experiment with 72 three‐year‐olds investigated whether encoding events while seeing
iconic gestures boosts children's memory representation of these events. The events, shown …

This study asked whether:(1) adults process representational gesture and (2) gesture is
remembered over time. Forty-five college students (ages 22–38) were each randomly …

In human face-to-face communication, the content of speech is often illustrated by coverbal
gestures. Behavioral evidence suggests that gestures provide advantages in the …

A well-established literature reveals that a speaker's gestures have beneficial effects on the
listener's memory for speech. A main assumption of our investigation is that gestures …

Through a series of experiments, Cohen and Otterbein (1992) found that sentences
presented together with pantomimes or with representational gestures were more often …

Gesture facilitates language production, but there is debate surrounding its exact role. It has
been argued that gestures lighten the load on verbal working memory (VWM; Goldin …