A Comparison between Children's and Adults' Ability to Detect Conceptual Information Conveyed through Representational Gestures | Zendy

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A Comparison between Children's and Adults' Ability to Detect Conceptual Information Conveyed through Representational Gestures

Author(s) -

Kelly Spencer D.,

Church R. Breckinridge

Publication year - 1998

Publication title -

child development

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 3.103

H-Index - 257

eISSN - 1467-8624

pISSN - 0009-3920

DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8624.1998.tb06135.x

Subject(s) - gesture , recall , psychology , stimulus (psychology) , nonverbal communication , developmental psychology , cognitive psychology , child development , communication , linguistics , philosophy

The present study compares children's and adults' ability to detect information that is conveyed through representational hand gestures. Eighteen children ( M = 10 years, 1 month) and 18 college undergraduates watched videotaped stimuli of children verbally and gesturally explaining their reasoning in a problem‐solving situation. A recall procedure was used to assess whether children and adults could detect information conveyed in the stimulus children's gesture and speech. Results showed that children and adults recalled information that was conveyed through representational gestures. In addition, “mismatching” gesture negatively affected the precision of speech recall for adults. However, this negative effect on speech recall was absent for children.

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