Yeo Amelia, Alibali Martha W
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn. 2018 May;44(5):826-832. doi: 10.1037/xlm0000458. Epub 2018 Apr 12.
Past research suggests that speakers gesture more when motor simulations are more strongly activated. We investigate whether simulations of a perceptual nature also influence gesture production. Participants viewed animations of a spider moving with a manner of motion that was either highly salient (n = 29) or less salient (n = 31) and then described each motion event. Speakers in the high-salience condition produced significantly more gestures that depicted manner information. However, they did not produce significantly more gestures overall, more gestures that depicted the spider's path and direction of motion, or more manner descriptions in speech. Moreover, the effect of visual salience on manner gestures persisted after controlling for expression of manner in speech. These findings suggest that speakers selectively produce gestures expressing features of perceptual representations that are highly salient. (PsycINFO Database Record
以往的研究表明，当运动模拟被更强烈地激活时，说话者的手势会更多。我们研究了感知性质的模拟是否也会影响手势的产生。参与者观看了一只蜘蛛以高度显著（n = 29）或不太显著（n = 31）的运动方式移动的动画，然后描述每个运动事件。处于高显著性条件下的说话者产生了显著更多描绘方式信息的手势。然而，他们在总体上并没有产生显著更多的手势、更多描绘蜘蛛路径和运动方向的手势，或者在言语中更多的方式描述。此外，在控制了言语中方式的表达之后，视觉显著性对方式手势的影响仍然存在。这些发现表明，说话者会选择性地产生表达高度显著的感知表征特征的手势。（PsycINFO数据库记录）
