The content of the message influences the hand choice in co-speech gestures and in gesturing without speaking

Brain and Language

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 57-69

  Lausberg, Hedda ^a,b   Kita, Sotaro ^b  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLINGUISTICS   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Co speech gestures; Gestures; Hand preference; Hemispheric specialization; Iconic gestures; Language lateralization; Non verbal communication; Speech gesture coordination

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GESTURE; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 0037783997     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(02)00534-5     Document Type: Article

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