Give your ideas a hand: the role of iconic hand gestures in enhancing divergent creative thinking
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DOI: 10.1007/s00426-024-01932-1
Abstract: Hand gestures play an integral role in multimodal language and communication. Even though the self-oriented functions of gestures, such as activating a speaker’s lexicon and maintaining visuospatial imagery, have been emphasized, gestures’ functions in creative… read more here.
Keywords: hand; role; creative thinking; iconic gestures ... See more keywords
EXPRESS: Comparing Mnemonic Effects of Iconic Gestures and Pictures on Word Memory.
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DOI: 10.1177/17470218221082654
Abstract: Previous studies using intermodal semantic priming have found that gestures improve language memory. In the present study, we ask whether the inherent characteristics of representative gestures (iconic gestures) facilitate word memory, or it is simply… read more here.
Keywords: word memory; iconic gestures; express comparing; gestures pictures ... See more keywords