2019
DOI: 10.1037/bul0000202
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When our hands help us understand: A meta-analysis into the effects of gesture on comprehension.

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“…Research informed by embodied cognition perspectives (Glenberg, 2010;Glenberg, Witt, & Metcalfe, 2013), including gestures (Goldin-Meadow, Nusbaum, Kelly, & Wagner, 2001;Ping & Goldin-Meadow, 2010) provides numerous examples of this potential synergy. Distinct from gestures, performed mostly using the hands for communicative purposes (Dargue, Sweller, & Jones, 2019;McNeill, 1992), are actions on objects using touch and/or manipulation (Congdon, Kwon, & Levine, 2018). Several lines of research suggest gestures and actions with the index finger are biologically primary.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Research informed by embodied cognition perspectives (Glenberg, 2010;Glenberg, Witt, & Metcalfe, 2013), including gestures (Goldin-Meadow, Nusbaum, Kelly, & Wagner, 2001;Ping & Goldin-Meadow, 2010) provides numerous examples of this potential synergy. Distinct from gestures, performed mostly using the hands for communicative purposes (Dargue, Sweller, & Jones, 2019;McNeill, 1992), are actions on objects using touch and/or manipulation (Congdon, Kwon, & Levine, 2018). Several lines of research suggest gestures and actions with the index finger are biologically primary.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In sum, much previous research has compared what people learn from speech with gesture to what people learn when they hear the same speech without gesture (e.g., Rueckert, Church, Avila, & Trejo, 2017). The evidence from such studies is clear that listeners learn more with gesture than they learn without (Dargue et al, 2019;Hostetter, 2011). However, to begin to understand how gestures might have their communicative power, we argue that it is useful to compare them to other sorts of nonverbal information that speakers might use, such as pictures or actions on objects.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Gestures improved comprehension most when they were iconic and supplemented speech with unique information. Hostetter (2011) found that child listeners benefited more from gesture than adult listeners; however, a more recent meta-analysis by Dargue et al (2019) found no significant difference in the benefits of gesture for comprehension between adult and child listeners, indicating that gesture robustly facilitates comprehension across the lifespan. Gesture seems to be particularly important for comprehension when listeners are learning language.…”
Section: Gesture For the Listenermentioning
confidence: 94%
“…However, not all gestures are created equal. Although, metaanalyses have found an overall moderate beneficial effect of gesture on listener comprehension (Hostetter, 2011;Dargue et al, 2019), some gestures were more beneficial than others. Gestures improved comprehension most when they were iconic and supplemented speech with unique information.…”
Section: Gesture For the Listenermentioning
confidence: 96%
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