ArticleScientific reports2019
Gestures convey different physiological responses when performed toward and away from the body.
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- The Neurocognitive Bases of Meaningful Intransitive Gestures: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Neuropsychological Studies.Neuropsychology review · 2025Pooled it
- Beyond the moving hand: How gesture meaning shapes visual attention during observation and imitation.Psychological research · 2026Article
- Gender differences in the observation of gesture direction: a physiological study.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Mapping the human praxis network: an investigation of white matter disconnection in limb apraxia of gesture production.Brain communications · 2022Article
- Pantomime of tool use: looking beyond apraxia.Brain communications · 2021Review
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Abstract
We assessed the sympathetic and parasympathetic activation associated to the observation of Pantomime (i.e. the mime of the use of a tool) and Intransitive gestures (i.e. expressive) performed toward (e.g. a comb and "thinking") and away from the body (e.g. key and "come here") in a group of healthy participants while both pupil dilation (N = 31) and heart rate variability (N = 33; HF-HRV) were recorded. Large pupil dilation was observed in both Pantomime and Intransitive gestures toward the body; whereas an increase of the vagal suppression was observed in Intransitive gestures away from the body but not in those toward the body. Our results suggest that the space where people act when performing a gesture has an impact on the physiological responses of the observer in relation to the type of social communicative information that the gesture direction conveys, from a more intimate (toward the body) to a more interactive one (away from the body).
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