Atit, Kinnari

Goksun, Tilbe

Resnick, Ilyse

Shipley, Thomas F.

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UC MercedProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science SocietyTitleExperts’ and Novices’ Use of Gesture in Explaining Geologic MapsPermalinkhttps://escholarship.org/uc/item/8kt4881hJournalProceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, 33(33)ISSN1069-7977AuthorsResnick, IlyseAtit, KinnariGoksun, Tilbeet al.Publication Date2011 Peer reviewedeScholarship.org Powered by the California Digital LibraryUniversity of CaliforniaExperts’ and Novices’ Use of Gesture in Explaining Geologic MapsIlyse ResnickTemple UniversityKinnari AtitTemple UniversityTilbe GoksunUniversity of PennsylvaniaThomas F. ShipleyTemple UniversityAbstract: People gesture during spatial tasks (Alibali et al., 2001; Kita & Özyürek, 2003; Morsella & Krauss,2004), and how they gesture reveals information about ongoing cognitive processes (Alibali & Kita, 2008; Church &Goldin-Meadow, 1986; Schwartz & Black, 1996). One task that requires many spatial processes is reading geologicmaps. Geologic maps give information about the spatial relationships of geological structures at the surface thatin turn can inform an expert about the underlying 3D structures. However, they are complex, contain both spatialand domain specific symbolic information, and are hard for students to understand. The current study compareshow expert geologists and students use gesture in explaining these maps. We report gestures used to convey spatialinformation about the penetrative relations and those used to convey information about the sequences of events.Hand shape, orientation, placement, and movement of the gesture convey information that is not available is speech.1117

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