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Aussems, Suzanne and Kita, Sotaro (2019) Seeing iconic gestures while encoding events facilitates children's memory of these events. Child Development, 90 (4). pp. 1123-1137. doi:10.1111/cdev.12988
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12988
Abstract
An experiment with 72 three-year-olds investigated whether encoding events while seeing iconic gestures boosts children's memory representation of these events. The events, shown in videos of actors moving in an unusual manner, were presented with either iconic gestures depicting how the actors performed these actions, interactive gestures, or no gesture. In a recognition memory task, children in the iconic gesture condition remembered actors and actions better than children in the control conditions. Iconic gestures were categorized based on how much of the actors was represented by the hands (feet, legs, or body). Only iconic hand-as-body gestures boosted actor memory. Thus, seeing iconic gestures while encoding events facilitates children's memory of those aspects of events that are schematically highlighted by gesture.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Science > Psychology | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Child Development | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 0009-3920 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 16 July 2019 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 90 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1123-1137 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1111/cdev.12988 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
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