Research article summary (published 30 Jan 1998):

A comparison between children's and adults' ability to detect conceptual information conveyed through representational gestures.

Full Abstract

The present study compares children's and adults' ability to detect information that is conveyed through representational hand gestures. Eighteen children (M = 10 years, 1 month) and 18 college undergraduates watched videotaped stimuli of children verbally and gesturally explaining their reasoning in a problem-solving situation. A recall procedure was used to assess whether children and adults could detect information conveyed in the stimulus children's gesture and speech. Results showed that children and adults recalled information that was conveyed through representational gestures. In addition, "mismatching" gesture negatively affected the precision of speech recall for adults. However, this negative effect on speech recall was absent for children.

Author information

Author/s: Kelly, S D (SD); Church, R B (RB);

Affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA. kelly(-atsign-)ccp.uchicago.edu

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Journal: Child development (Child Dev), published in UNITED STATES. (Language: eng)

Reference: 1998-Feb; vol 69 (issue 1) : pp 85-93

Dates: Created 1998/05/21; Completed 1998/05/21; Revised 2006/11/15;

PMID: 9499559, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 2/18/2009, IMS Date: )

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Adult Child Child Development - physiology Cognition - physiology

Gestures Humans Mental Recall - physiology Speech - physiology

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