Attention to Speech-Accompanying Gestures: Eye Movements and Information Uptake |
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Authors: | Marianne Gullberg Sotaro Kita |
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Institution: | (1) Radboud University Nijmegen and Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, PO Box 310, 6500 AH Nijmegen, The Netherlands;(2) School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, UK |
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Abstract: | There is growing evidence that addressees in interaction integrate the semantic information conveyed by speakers’ gestures.
Little is known, however, about whether and how addressees’ attention to gestures and the integration of gestural information
can be modulated. This study examines the influence of a social factor (speakers’ gaze to their own gestures), and two physical
factors (the gesture’s location in gesture space and gestural holds) on addressees’ overt visual attention to gestures (direct
fixations of gestures) and their uptake of gestural information. It also examines the relationship between gaze and uptake.
The results indicate that addressees’ overt visual attention to gestures is affected both by speakers’ gaze and holds but
for different reasons, whereas location in space plays no role. Addressees’ uptake of gesture information is only influenced
by speakers’ gaze. There is little evidence of a direct relationship between addressees’ direct fixations of gestures and
their uptake. |
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