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Macedonia, Manuela; Klimesch, Wolfgang – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2014
Language and gesture are viewed as highly interdependent systems. Besides supporting communication, gestures also have an impact on memory for verbal information compared to pure verbal encoding in native but also in foreign language learning. This article presents a within-subject longitudinal study lasting 14 months that tested the use of…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Verbal Communication, Longitudinal Studies, Audiovisual Instruction
Macedonia, Manuela; Knosche, Thomas R. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2011
It has previously been demonstrated that enactment (i.e., performing representative gestures during encoding) enhances memory for concrete words, in particular action words. Here, we investigate the impact of enactment on abstract word learning in a foreign language. We further ask if learning novel words with gestures facilitates sentence…
Descriptors: Second Language Learning, Nonverbal Communication, Verbs, Italian
Macedonia, Manuela; Muller, Karsten; Friederici, Angela D. – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2010
Learning vocabulary in a foreign language is a laborious task which people perform with varying levels of success. Here, we investigated the neural underpinning of high performance on this task. In a within-subjects paradigm, participants learned 92 vocabulary items under two multimodal conditions: one condition paired novel words with iconic…
Descriptors: Semantics, Word Recognition, Memory, Memorization