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| Title |
Creating a communication system from scratch: gesture beats vocalization hands down
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, April 2014
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00354 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Nicolas Fay, Casey J. Lister, T. Mark Ellison, Susan Goldin-Meadow |
| Abstract |
How does modality affect people's ability to create a communication system from scratch? The present study experimentally tests this question by having pairs of participants communicate a range of pre-specified items (emotions, actions, objects) over a series of trials to a partner using either non-linguistic vocalization, gesture or a combination of the two. Gesture-alone outperformed vocalization-alone, both in terms of successful communication and in terms of the creation of an inventory of sign-meaning mappings shared within a dyad (i.e., sign alignment). Combining vocalization with gesture did not improve performance beyond gesture-alone. In fact, for action items, gesture-alone was a more successful means of communication than the combined modalities. When people do not share a system for communication they can quickly create one, and gesture is the best means of doing so. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Canada | 1 | 6% |
| Unknown | 17 | 94% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Scientists | 10 | 56% |
| Members of the public | 8 | 44% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 78 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Portugal | 1 | 1% |
| Cyprus | 1 | 1% |
| Netherlands | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| United States | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 72 | 92% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 16 | 21% |
| Student > Master | 15 | 19% |
| Researcher | 9 | 12% |
| Professor | 5 | 6% |
| Student > Bachelor | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 18 | 23% |
| Unknown | 10 | 13% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 23 | 29% |
| Linguistics | 12 | 15% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 9 | 12% |
| Computer Science | 8 | 10% |
| Arts and Humanities | 5 | 6% |
| Other | 10 | 13% |
| Unknown | 11 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 59. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 16 March 2022.
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#758,124
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#1,594
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#6,689
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#21
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