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Iconic gesture and speech integration in younger and older adults
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- Source: Gesture, Volume 11, Issue 1, Jan 2011, p. 24 - 39
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Abstract
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.
© 2011 John Benjamins Publishing Company