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.
Costello, Matthew C., Jennifer K. MacCormack, Eun Jin Paek, Uma Jalloh & Anna M. Borghi
2025. Evidence of Embodiment-based changes in older Adult Language. Psychological Research 89:5
Gabbatore, Ilaria, Riccardo Conterio, Giorgia Vegna & Francesca M. Bosco
2025. Longitudinal assessment of pragmatic and cognitive decay in healthy aging, and interplay with subjective cognitive decline and cognitive reserve. Scientific Reports 15:1
Young, Emily B. & Elena Nicoladis
2025. Do gestures and props help communication with older adults about prescription medicine?. Applied Psycholinguistics 46
Baraldi, Maria Alice & Filippo Domaneschi
2024. Pragmatic Skills in Late Adulthood. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research 53:2
Güneş Acar, Naziye, Tilbe Göksun & Ali İ. Tekcan
2024. Details in hand: how does gesturing relate to autobiographical memory?. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 39:10 ► pp. 1310 ff.
KERN, Friederike, Ulrich BODEN, Anne NEMETH, Sofia KOUTALIDIS, Olga ABRAMOV, Stefan KOPP & Katharina J. ROHLFING
2024. Preschool children’s discourse competence in different genres and how it relates to iconic gestures. Journal of Child Language 51:3 ► pp. 656 ff.
Kim, Jeesun, Valerie Hazan, Outi Tuomainen & Chris Davis
2024. Partner-directed gaze and co-speech hand gestures: effects of age, hearing loss and noise. Frontiers in Psychology 15
Hilviu, Dize, Ilaria Gabbatore, Alberto Parola & Francesca M. Bosco
2022. A cross-sectional study to assess pragmatic strengths and weaknesses in healthy ageing. BMC Geriatrics 22:1
Ouwehand, Kim, Jacqueline de Nooijer, Tamara van Gog & Fred Paas
2022. Action-speech and gesture-speech integration in younger and older adults: An event-related potential study. Journal of Neurolinguistics 64 ► pp. 101100 ff.
Arslan, Burcu & Tilbe Göksun
2021. Ageing, working memory, and mental imagery: Understanding gestural communication in younger and older adults. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology 74:1 ► pp. 29 ff.
Arslan, Burcu & Tilbe Göksun
2022. Aging, Gesture Production, and Disfluency in Speech: A Comparison of Younger and Older Adults. Cognitive Science 46:2
2021. Age-related effects on the neural processing of semantic complexity in a continuous narrative: Modulation by gestures already present in young to middle-aged adults. Neuropsychologia 151 ► pp. 107725 ff.
2021. Covert Attention to Gestures Is Sufficient for Information Uptake. Frontiers in Psychology 12
Wicke, Philipp & Tony Veale
2021. Creative Action at a Distance: A Conceptual Framework for Embodied Performance With Robotic Actors. Frontiers in Robotics and AI 8
Özer, Demet & Tilbe Göksun
2020. Visual-spatial and verbal abilities differentially affect processing of gestural vs. spoken expressions. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience 35:7 ► pp. 896 ff.
Özer, Demet & Tilbe Göksun
2020. Gesture Use and Processing: A Review on Individual Differences in Cognitive Resources. Frontiers in Psychology 11
Cocks, Naomi, Suzanne Byrne, Madeleine Pritchard, Gary Morgan & Lucy Dipper
2018. Integration of speech and gesture in aphasia. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders 53:3 ► pp. 584 ff.
Llanes-Coromina, Judith, Ingrid Vilà-Giménez, Olga Kushch, Joan Borràs-Comes & Pilar Prieto
2018. Beat gestures help preschoolers recall and comprehend discourse information. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology 172 ► pp. 168 ff.
Miyake, Hidenori & Shinichiro Sugimura
2018. The effect of directive words on integrated comprehension of speech and iconic gestures for actions in young children. Infant and Child Development 27:5
Melehin, A.
2017. Specificity of pragmatic features of language in elderly age: principles of diagnosis and direction of therapy. Journal of Modern Foreign Psychology 6:3 ► pp. 39 ff.
Vatavu, Radu-Daniel
2017. Characterizing gesture knowledge transfer across multiple contexts of use. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces 11:4 ► pp. 301 ff.
van Nispen, Karin, Mieke van de Sandt-Koenderman, Lisette Mol & Emiel Krahmer
2016. Pantomime Production by People With Aphasia: What Are Influencing Factors?. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 59:4 ► pp. 745 ff.
Bremner, Paul & Ute Leonards
2015. 2015 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), ► pp. 1999 ff.
Bremner, Paul & Ute Leonards
2016. Iconic Gestures for Robot Avatars, Recognition and Integration with Speech. Frontiers in Psychology 7
Sekine, Kazuki, Hannah Sowden & Sotaro Kita
2015. The Development of the Ability to Semantically Integrate Information in Speech and Iconic Gesture in Comprehension. Cognitive Science 39:8 ► pp. 1855 ff.
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