Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal about Thought

Arnheim, Rudolf; McNeill, David

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“…Differences in the informativeness of complex gestures may be understood by looking at the underlying kinematic differences and how these relate to the comprehension of such gestures. As an example, gestures are understood through the individual movements that comprise them, rather than static hand configurations (Kendon, 2004;McNeill, 1994). Increasing the number of clearly defined movements consequently increases the amount of visual information available to an observer, which could lead to the perception of increased informativeness.…”

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“…This communicative signaling system is powerful in that the signals are dynamically adapted for the context in which they are used. For example, representational gestures (Kendon, 2004;McNeill, 1994) show systematic modulations dependent upon the communicative or social context in which they occur (Campisi & Özyürek, 2013;Galati & Galati, 2015;Gerwing & Bavelas, 2004;Holler & Beattie, 2005). Although these gestures are an important aspect of human communication, it is currently unclear how the addressee benefits from this communicative modulation.…”

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The communicative advantage: how kinematic signaling supports semantic comprehension

Trujillo

Simanova

Bekkering

et al. 2019

Psychological Research

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Humans are unique in their ability to communicate information through representational gestures which visually simulate an action (eg. moving hands as if opening a jar). Previous research indicates that the intention to communicate modulates the kinematics (e.g., velocity, size) of such gestures. If and how this modulation influences addressees' comprehension of gestures have not been investigated. Here we ask whether communicative kinematic modulation enhances semantic comprehension (i.e., identification) of gestures. We additionally investigate whether any comprehension advantage is due to enhanced early identification or late identification. Participants (n = 20) watched videos of representational gestures produced in a more-(n = 60) or less-communicative (n = 60) context and performed a forced-choice recognition task. We tested the isolated role of kinematics by removing visibility of actor's faces in Experiment I, and by reducing the stimuli to stick-light figures in Experiment II. Three video lengths were used to disentangle early identification from late identification. Accuracy and response time quantified main effects. Kinematic modulation was tested for correlations with task performance. We found higher gesture identification performance in more-compared to less-communicative gestures. However, early identification was only enhanced within a full visual context, while late identification occurred even when viewing isolated kinematics. Additionally, temporally segmented acts with more post-stroke holds were associated with higher accuracy. Our results demonstrate that communicative signaling, interacting with other visual cues, generally supports gesture identification, while kinematic modulation specifically enhances late identification in the absence of other cues. Results provide insights into mutual understanding processes as well as creating artificial communicative agents.

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The communicative advantage: how kinematic signaling supports semantic comprehension

Trujillo

Simanova

Bekkering

et al. 2019

Psychological Research

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“…En cuarto lugar, es revelador que gestos y habla se desarrollen juntos entre los niños, y de igual forma (quinto punto), gestos y habla se descomponen al mismo tiempo en la afasia. Estos dos últimos argumentos en especial validan el hecho de que habla y gesto son parte de un mismo sistema al nivel cognitivo (McNeill 1992).…”

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“…Los gestos expresan varios tipos de información que dependen en gran parte de sus relaciones con el habla. Para explicarlo, McNeill (1992) propone considerar lo que llama el "continuo de Kendon" (inspirado por el trabajo de Kendon 1983). El continuo, presentado en la Figura 1, considera la forma en la cual gestos y habla se complementan.…”

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“…Sin embargo, es problemático limitar el lenguaje humano a solo lo que se puede escribir, ya que la forma natural de interacción humana es multimodal: todos los humanos en sus interacciones cotidianas gesticulan (McNeill 1992;Kendon 2004), usan prosodia (Couper-Kuhlen & Selting 1996), y expresiones faciales (Ekman 1980;2006). Aun cuando no es siempre obvio o consciente para los mismos hablantes, mucha información es transmitida a través de los elementos multimodales (Enfield 2009;Stivers & Sidnell 2005).…”

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La importancia de la gestualidad en el estudio del maya yucateco actual.

Guen

2018

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Durante siglos, la descripción lingüística estuvo muy limitada debido a que no se contaba con la posibilidad de grabar en audio y video. Por esta razón, se dejó de lado la naturaleza intrínsecamente multimodal del lenguaje humano, la cual incluye varios tipos de información tanto prosódica como visual. En este trabajo se discuten las formas en que los gestos complementan el habla, lo que incluye varios niveles de análisis: pragmático, semántico y sintáctico, para finalizar con el estudio de gestos que fungen como signos lingüísticos. Para lograr este objetivo, se toma como ejemplo la lengua maya yucateca hablada en la actualidad y se exponen ejemplos de producciones espontáneas. Si bien ciertos procesos descritos en este trabajo son específicos del maya yucateco, la mayor parte no se limita a esta lengua. Se comienza con la definición de lenguaje, habla y gestos; y cómo se puede estudiar la forma en que se integran el habla y los gestos en una oración compuesta. Posteriormente se analizan ejemplos de diferentes tipos de gestos en varias áreas de la comunicación en maya yucateco, como son los gestos deícticos, el uso de los gestos con expresivos, en las metáforas y en la integración de los gestos al nivel pragmático. Finalmente, se explica cómo los gestos pueden llegar a ser signos lingüísticos en maya yucateco. Original recibido: 2016/09/15Dictamen enviado al autor: 2017/03/25Aceptado: 2017/11/07

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Studying Psycholinguistics out of the Lab

Speed,

Wnuk,

Majid

2017

Research Methods in Psycholinguistics and the Neurobiology of Language

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Traditional psycholinguistic studies take place in controlled experimental labs and typically involve testing undergraduate psychology or linguistics students. Investigating psycholinguistics in this manner calls into question the external validity of findings, that is, the extent to which research findings generalize across languages and cultures, as well as ecologically valid settings. Here we consider three ways in which psycho linguistics can be taken out of the lab. First, researchers can conduct cross-cultural fieldwork in diverse languages and cultures. Second, they can conduct online experiments or experiments in institutionalized public spaces (e.g., museums) to obtain large, diverse participant samples. And, third, researchers can perform studies in more ecologically valid settings, to increase the real-world generalizability of findings. By moving away from the traditional lab setting, psycholinguists can enrich their understanding of language use in all its rich and diverse contexts.

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Hand and Mind: What Gestures Reveal about Thought

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The communicative advantage: how kinematic signaling supports semantic comprehension

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La importancia de la gestualidad en el estudio del maya yucateco actual.

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