Verbal working memory predicts co-speech gesture: Evidence from individual differences

Cognition

Volumn 132, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 174-180

  Gillespie, Maureen ^a   James, Ariel N ^b   Federmeier, Kara D ^b   Watson, Duane G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Gesture; Individual differences; Language production; Lexical access; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PERFORMANCE; PLANNING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH; VERBAL MEMORY; VERBAL WORKING MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY; INDIVIDUALITY; PHYSIOLOGY; YOUNG ADULT;

FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; SPEECH; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84899824344     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2014.03.012     Document Type: Article

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