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The Deep Versus the Shallow: Effects of Co‐Speech Gestures in Learning From Discourse
Author(s) -
Cutica Ilaria,
Bucciarelli Monica
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
cognitive science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.498
H-Index - 114
eISSN - 1551-6709
pISSN - 0364-0213
DOI - 10.1080/03640210802222039
Subject(s) - gesture , recall , representation (politics) , linguistics , discourse analysis , psychology , mental representation , cognitive psychology , communication , cognition , politics , philosophy , political science , neuroscience , law
Abstract This study concerned the role of gestures that accompany discourse in deep learning processes. We assumed that co‐speech gestures favor the construction of a complete mental representation of the discourse content, and we tested the predictions that a discourse accompanied by gestures, as compared with a discourse not accompanied by gestures, should result in better recollection of conceptual information, a greater number of discourse‐based inferences drawn from the information explicitly stated in the discourse, and poorer recognition of verbatim of the discourse. The results of three experiments confirmed these predictions.