22 research outputs found
An Eye-Tracking Study of Integrative Spatial Cognition over Diagrammatic Representations
Planning and waste management
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Elder Financial Abuse: An RCT for the Development of an Online Training Tool for Professionals
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Elder Financial Abuse: An RCT for the Development of an Online Training Tool for Professionals
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Effects of age-of-acquisition and other word attributes in verbal tasks
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The effects of prohibiting gestures on children's lexical retrieval ability
The definitive version is available at www.blackwell-synergy.com '. Copyright Blackwell Publishing DOI : 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2007.00610.xTwo alternative accounts have been proposed to explain the role of gestures in thinking and speaking. The Information Packaging Hypothesis (Kita, 2000) claims that gestures are important for the conceptual packaging of information before it is coded into a linguistic form for speech. The Lexical Retrieval Hypothesis (Rauscher, Krauss & Chen, 1996) sees gestures as functioning more at the level of speech production in helping the speaker to find the right words. The latter hypothesis has not been fully explored with children. In this study children were given a naming task under conditions that allowed and restricted gestures. Children named more words correctly and resolved more 'tip-of-the-tongue' states when allowed to gesture than when not, suggesting that gestures facilitate access to the lexicon in children and are important for speech production as well as conceptualization.Peer reviewe