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ERIC Number: EJ561623
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0009-3920
A Comparison between Children's and Adults' Ability to Detect Conceptual Information Conveyed through Representational Gestures.
Kelly, Spencer D.; Church, R. Breckinridge
Child Development, v69 n1 p85-93 Feb 1998
Compared 18 children's and 18 adults' ability to detect information conveyed through the representational hand gestures of videotaped children verbally and gesturally explaining their problem-solving reasoning. Found that children and adults recalled information conveyed through representational gestures. Mismatching gesture negatively affected the precision of adult's but not children's speech recall. (Author)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Body Language, Children, Comparative Analysis, Problem Solving, Recall (Psychology), Young Adults
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Gestural Representation; Representational Response