Movement and lexical access: Do noniconic gestures aid in retrieval?

Ravizza, Susan M.

doi:10.3758/bf03196522

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“…Nevertheless, future research should aim to control the number of visual elements contained within pictures in the two conditions. Our lack of a main effect of gesture condition on the production of filler terms or proportion of speech time spent pausing is in accordance with some (e.g., Beattie & Coughlan, 1999;Hostetter & Skirving, 2011;Ravizza, 2003) but not all past research (e.g., Frick-Horbury & Guttentag, 1998;Pine, Bird, & Kirk, 2007). Our study eliminated the potential distraction of participants in one condition being told to remain still, suggesting that previous findings might have been due to the divided attention necessary to perform the task in that condition.…”

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“…Previous research on the impact of gestures on speech has yielded various results (e.g., Beattie & Coughlan, 1999;Frick-Horbury & Guttentag, 1998;Hostetter & Skirving, 2011;Pine et al, 2007;Ravizza, 2003). The present findings contributed to the literature on this relationship and suggested the need for much more research in this area, with the ultimate goal of developing a sound theoretical model of how gesturing exerts an influence on speech fluency.…”

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“…In other words, having the ability to gesture made word retrieval easier, although actually gesturing did not appear to impact task performance. Ravizza (2003) found that finger tapping movements with no obvious meaning improved lexical production compared to remaining still. This effect was limited to resolution of TOT states (i.e., coming up with the correct word once in a TOT state), as movement did not help generate correct responses when the speaker was not in a TOT state (see also Beattie & Coughlan, 1999).…”

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“…In fact, in experiments on a tip-of-the-tongue lexical paradigm, it has been shown that not only iconic gestures but also meaningless gestures enhance verbal memory [Beattie and Coughlan, 1999;Beattie and Shovelton, 1999]. Furthermore, simple tapping can significantly increase word retrieval [Ravizza, 2003]. Children allowed to gesture were also significantly better in resolving tip-of-the-tongue and naming tasks than when they were not [Pine et al, 2007].…”

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The impact of iconic gestures on foreign language word learning and its neural substrate

Macedonia¹,

Müller²,

Friederici³

2011

Human Brain Mapping

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Vocabulary acquisition represents a major challenge in foreign language learning. Research has demonstrated that gestures accompanying speech have an impact on memory for verbal information in the speakers' mother tongue and, as recently shown, also in foreign language learning. However, the neural basis of this effect remains unclear. In a within-subjects design, we compared learning of novel words coupled with iconic and meaningless gestures. Iconic gestures helped learners to significantly better retain the verbal material over time. After the training, participants' brain activity was registered by means of fMRI while performing a word recognition task. Brain activations to words learned with iconic and with meaningless gestures were contrasted. We found activity in the premotor cortices for words encoded with iconic gestures. In contrast, words encoded with meaningless gestures elicited a network associated with cognitive control. These findings suggest that memory performance for newly learned words is not driven by the motor component as such, but by the motor image that matches an underlying representation of the word's semantics.

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“…Ravizza (2003) The recent neurological studies prove the differences in brain processes during retrieval of the abstract and concrete words. According to Meteyard, Cuadrado, Bahrami, and Vigliocco (2012), concrete words have more "imageability" and are much more dependent on the context.…”

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Gestures and Lexical Access Problems in German as Second Language

Исаева¹

2016

Beyond Language Boundaries

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ABSTRACT:Gestures receive growing attention in the field of Second Language Acquisition but still there is a scarcity of research that looks at them as a part of multimodal communication through the use of interactional approach.The present study aims to explore the interplay of gestures in oral production in German as second language and the lexical access problems. It looks at the principal gesture functions in communication (referential, discursive, interactional, autostimulative) To answer these research questions the speech of 6 Spanish/Catalan (L1) students of German (L2) The results show that the gestures that depict image are scarcely presented and do not participate in word retrieval. The emphatic gestures represent the discursive function in communication.The pointing gestures in the majority of cases are used strategically to prompt reaction from the interviewer, and, thus, play an interactional function, not the referential one. The autostimulative 2 gestures that occur during the lexical access problems may participate in the retrieval but still their role should be investigated more.In our study the higher proficiency is related to the decrease in lexical access problems and the decrease in searches for the abstract words. Its relation to the most frequently presented gestural types is, however, weak. The higher speech rate is related to the decrease in cases with lexical access problems that were produced without gestures, but does not affect gestural types.Frequency of silent pauses is not strongly related neither to the amount of lexical access problems, nor to the type of lexical items, nor to the most frequently presented gestural types.

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Movement and lexical access: Do noniconic gestures aid in retrieval?

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