Abstract

This study investigated the impact of age on iconic gesture and speech integration. The performance of a group of older adults (60–76 years) and a group of younger adults (22–30 years) were compared on a task which required the comprehension of information presented in 3 different conditions: verbal only, gesture only, and verbal and gesture combined. The older adults in the study did not benefit as much from multi-modal input as the younger adults and were more likely to ignore gesture when decoding the multi-modal information.

Publication Type:	Article
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Publisher Keywords:	gesture, integration, aging
Subjects:	P Language and Literature > P Philology. Linguistics
Departments:	School of Health Sciences > Language & Communication Science
URI:	http://openaccess.city.ac.uk/id/eprint/5583

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