Iconic gesture and speech integration in younger and older adults

N Cocks, G Morgan, S Kita - Gesture, 2011 - jbe-platform.com
This study investigated the impact of age on iconic gesture and speech integration. The
performance of a group of older adults (60–76 years) and a group of younger adults (22–30 …

Gesture–speech integration in narrative: Are children less redundant than adults?

MW Alibali, JL Evans, AB Hostetter, K Ryan… - Gesture, 2009 - jbe-platform.com
Speakers sometimes express information in gestures that they do not express in speech. In
this research, we developed a system that could be used to assess the redundancy of …

Ageing, working memory, and mental imagery: Understanding gestural communication in younger and older adults

B Arslan, T Göksun - Quarterly Journal of Experimental …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Ageing has effects both on language and gestural communication skills. Although gesture
use is similar between younger and older adults, the use of representational gestures (eg …

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 …

Gesture and speech integration: An exploratory study of a man with aphasia

N Cocks, L Sautin, S Kita, G Morgan… - International Journal of …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
Background: In order to comprehend fully a speaker's intention in everyday communication,
information is integrated from multiple sources, including gesture and speech. There are no …

Gestures accompanying speech in specifically language-impaired children and their timing with speech

J Blake, D Myszczyszyn, A Jokel… - First …, 2008 - journals.sagepub.com
The repertoire and timing of gestures accompanying speech were compared in children with
specific language impairment (SLI), aged 5—10 years, in typically developing peers (CA) …

A coding system with independent annotations of gesture forms and functions during verbal communication: Development of a database of speech and gesture …

APH Kong, SP Law, CCY Kwan, C Lai… - Journal of nonverbal …, 2015 - Springer
Gestures are commonly used together with spoken language in human communication. One
major limitation of gesture investigations in the existing literature lies in the fact that the …

Speech-gesture mismatches: Evidence for one underlying representation of linguistic and nonlinguistic information

J Cassell, D McNeill, KE McCullough - Pragmatics & cognition, 1999 - jbe-platform.com
Adults and children spontaneously produce gestures while they speak, and such gestures
appear to support and expand on the information communicated by the verbal channel. Little …

The role of gesture in memory and social communication

RB Church, P Garber, K Rogalski - Gesture, 2007 - jbe-platform.com
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 …

Encoding and memory for visible speech and gestures: a comparison between young and older adults.

LA Thompson - Psychology and aging, 1995 - psycnet.apa.org
Two experiments explored whether older adults have developed a strategy of compensating
for slower speeds of language processing and hearing loss by relying more on the visual …