Gesturing Saves Cognitive Resources When Talking About Nonpresent ObjectsCognitive Science - Tập 34 Số 4 - Trang 602-619 - 2010
Raedy M. Ping, Susan Goldin‐Meadow
AbstractIn numerous experimental contexts, gesturing has been shown to lighten a speaker’s cognitive load. However, in all of these experimental paradigms, the gestures have been directed to items in the “here‐and‐now.” This study attempts to generalize gesture’s ability to lighten cognitive load. We demonstrate here that gesturing continues to confer cognitive ben...... hiện toàn bộ
Moving to Learn: How Guiding the Hands Can Set the Stage for LearningCognitive Science - Tập 40 Số 7 - Trang 1831-1849 - 2016
Neon Brooks, Susan Goldin‐Meadow
AbstractPrevious work has found that guiding problem‐solvers' movements can have an immediate effect on their ability to solve a problem. Here we explore these processes in a learning paradigm. We ask whether guiding a learner's movements can have a delayed effect on learning, setting the stage for change that comes about only after instruction. Children were taugh...... hiện toàn bộ