Journal article
Gesturing makes memories that last
Journal of memory and language, Vol.63(4), pp.465-475
2010
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2010.07.002
PMCID: PMC3124384
PMID: 21731176
Abstract
When people are asked to perform actions, they remember those actions better than if they are asked to talk about the same actions. But when people talk, they often gesture with their hands, thus adding an action component to talking. The question we asked in this study was whether producing gesture along with speech makes the information encoded in that speech more memorable than it would have been without gesture. We found that gesturing during encoding led to better recall, even when the amount of speech produced during encoding was controlled. Gesturing during encoding improved recall whether the speaker chose to gesture spontaneously or was instructed to gesture. Thus, gesturing during encoding seems to function like action in facilitating memory.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Gesturing makes memories that last
- Creators
- Susan Wagner Cook - Department of Psychology and Delta Center, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, USATerina KuangYi Yip - University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USASusan Goldin-Meadow - University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of memory and language, Vol.63(4), pp.465-475
- DOI
- 10.1016/j.jml.2010.07.002
- PMID
- 21731176
- PMCID
- PMC3124384
- NLM abbreviation
- J Mem Lang
- ISSN
- 0749-596X
- eISSN
- 1096-0821
- Publisher
- Elsevier Inc
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 2010
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984002488702771
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