ReviewFrontiers in psychology2020
Gesture Use and Processing: A Review on Individual Differences in Cognitive Resources.
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- Co-Speech Hand Gestures Are Used to Predict Upcoming Meaning.Psychological science · 2025Article
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- Reduced on-line speech gesture integration during multimodal language processing in adults with moderate-severe traumatic brain injury: Evidence from eye-tracking.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2024Article
- Learners' Spontaneous Gesture Before a Math Lesson Predicts the Efficacy of Seeing Versus Doing Gesture During the Lesson.Cognitive science · 2024Article
- Give your ideas a hand: the role of iconic hand gestures in enhancing divergent creative thinking.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Is personality reflected in the gestures of second language speakers?Frontiers in psychology · 2024Article
- Gestures speed up responses to questions.Language, cognition and neuroscience · 2024Article
- Characterizing iconic gesture during narratives in chronic traumatic brain injury recovery.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2024Article
- The role of hand gestures in emotion communication: Do type and size of gestures matter?Psychological research · 2023Article
- Gesture links language and cognition for spoken and signed languages.Nature reviews psychology · 2023Article
- The creative interplay between hand gestures, convergent thinking, and mental imagery.PloS one · 2023Article
- The role of gestures in autobiographical memory.PloS one · 2023Article
- A Hands-On Approach to Learning: Gesture Production During Encoding and its Effect on Narrative Recall.Cognitive science · 2022Article
- A cross-sectional study to assess pragmatic strengths and weaknesses in healthy ageing.BMC geriatrics · 2022Article
- The role of caregiver gestures and gesture-related responses of toddlers with autism spectrum disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- The Role of Iconic Gestures in Speech Comprehension: An Overview of Various Methodologies.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
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Abstract
Speakers use spontaneous hand gestures as they speak and think. These gestures serve many functions for speakers who produce them as well as for listeners who observe them. To date, studies in the gesture literature mostly focused on group-comparisons or the external sources of variation to examine when people use, process, and benefit from using and observing gestures. However, there are also internal sources of variation in gesture use and processing. People differ in how frequently they use gestures, how salient their gestures are, for what purposes they produce gestures, and how much they benefit from using and seeing gestures during comprehension and learning depending on their cognitive dispositions. This review addresses how individual differences in different cognitive skills relate to how people employ gestures in production and comprehension across different ages (from infancy through adulthood to healthy aging) from a functionalist perspective. We conclude that speakers and listeners can use gestures as a compensation tool during communication and thinking that interacts with individuals' cognitive dispositions.
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