Cocks, N., Morgan, G. and Kita, S. (2011). Iconic gesture and speech integration in younger and older adults. Gesture, 11(1), pp. 24-39. doi: 10.1075/gest.11.1.02coc
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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