Beat gestures help preschoolers recall and comprehend discourse information

J Llanes-Coromina, I Vilà-Giménez, O Kushch… - Journal of Experimental …, 2018 - Elsevier
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 …

Integration of speech and gesture in aphasia

N Cocks, S Byrne, M Pritchard… - … Journal of Language …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Background Information from speech and gesture is often integrated to comprehend a
message. This integration process requires the appropriate allocation of cognitive resources …

Pointing the way forward: Gesture and adults' recall of route direction information.

EE Austin, N Sweller, P Van Bergen - Journal of Experimental …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
Spatial communication tasks, such as following route directions through unfamiliar
environments, place considerable demands on multiple cognitive processes, including …

[PDF][PDF] Storytelling by a Show of Hands: A framework for interactive embodied storytelling in robotic agents

P Wicke, T Veale - Proc. of AISB'18, the Conf. on Artificial …, 2018 - haddock.ucd.ie
With the increasing availability of commercial humanoid robots, the domain of computational
storytelling has found a tool that combines linguistics with its physical originator, the body …

Preschoolers' pragmatic development: how prosody and gesture lend a helping hand

I Hübscher - 2018 - tdx.cat
While previous research on language development has highlighted the facilitating role of
gesture (mainly deictic gesture) in children's early access to meaning, little is known about …

The effect of directive words on integrated comprehension of speech and iconic gestures for actions in young children

H Miyake, S Sugimura - Infant and Child Development, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
We investigated the effect of age and directive words on children's ability to semantically
integrate speech and iconic gesture. The participants were 132 children aged 4 to 6 years …

Beat gestures help preschoolers recall and comprehend discourse information

P Prieto Vives, J Llanes-Coromina… - J Exp Child Psychol …, 2018 - repositori.upf.edu
Though 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 (rhythmic …