NDLI: Using and Seeing Co-speech Gesture in a Spatial Task

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Author	Suppes, Alexandra Tzeng, Christina Y. Galguera, Laura
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Visibility of speakers’ conversational hand gestures has been shown to facilitate listeners’ comprehension. Is this true for all types of gestures? In Experiment 1, speakers were videotaped describing apartment layouts from memory. When describing complex compared to simple layouts, speakers used more representational gestures. In particular, they used more iconic–deictic gestures, or hand movements that represent both an object or action, and direction or location. This suggests that the frequency of complex representational gestures increases as a function of task difficulty. To assess the extent to which these gestures facilitate speech comprehension, in Experiment 2 a new group of participants either watched the videos of the apartment descriptions (audio + video condition) or only heard the descriptions (audio-only condition) and drew each corresponding layout. Although drawing accuracy did not differ as a function of condition, the more iconic–deictic gestures produced during the apartment descriptions, the less accurate listeners’ drawings were. Together, findings from Experiments 1 and 2 suggest that iconic–deictic gestures reflect task difficulty for the speaker and do not necessarily facilitate comprehension for the listener.
Starting Page	241
Ending Page	257
Page Count	17
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01915886
Journal	Journal of Nonverbal Behavior
Volume Number	39
Issue Number	3
e-ISSN	15733653
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2015-02-12
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Co-speech gesture Gesture visibility Communication Representational gestures Personality and Social Psychology Sociology Social Sciences
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Social Psychology

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