The relation between cognitive abilities and the distribution of semantic features across speech and gesture in 4-year-olds

Abramov, Olga; Kern, Friederike; Koutalidis, Sofia; Mertens, Ulrich; Rohlfing, Katharina; Kopp, Stefan

The relation between cognitive abilities and the distribution of semantic features across speech and gesture in 4-year-olds

Abramov O, Kern F, Koutalidis S, Mertens U, Rohlfing K, Kopp S (2021)
Cognitive Science 45(7).

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DOI

https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13012

URN

urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29553335

Autor*in

Abramov, Olga^UniBi ; Kern, Friederike^UniBi ; Koutalidis, Sofia^UniBi; Mertens, Ulrich; Rohlfing, Katharina; Kopp, Stefan^UniBi

Einrichtung

Technische Fakultät > AG Kognitive Systeme und soziale Interaktion
Center of Excellence - Cognitive Interaction Technology CITEC

Abstract / Bemerkung

When young children learn to use language, they start to use their hands in co-verbal gesturing. There are, however, considerable differences between children, and it is not completely understood what these individual differences are due to. We studied how children at 4 years of age employ speech and iconic gestures to convey meaning in different kinds of spatial event descriptions, and how this relates to their cognitive abilities. Focusing on spontaneous illustrations of actions, we applied a semantic feature (SF) analysis to characterize combinations of speech and gesture meaning and related them to the child's visual-spatial abilities or abstract/concrete reasoning abilities (measured using the standardized SON-R urn:x-wiley:03640213:media:cogs13012:cogs13012-math-0001 test). Results show that children with higher cognitive abilities convey significantly more meaning via gesture and less solely via speech. These findings suggest that young children's use of cospeech representational gesturing is positively related to their mental representation and reasoning abilities.

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Zeitschriftentitel

Cognitive Science

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0364-0213

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1551-6709

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Abramov O, Kern F, Koutalidis S, Mertens U, Rohlfing K, Kopp S. The relation between cognitive abilities and the distribution of semantic features across speech and gesture in 4-year-olds. Cognitive Science. 2021;45(7).

Abramov, O., Kern, F., Koutalidis, S., Mertens, U., Rohlfing, K., & Kopp, S. (2021). The relation between cognitive abilities and the distribution of semantic features across speech and gesture in 4-year-olds. Cognitive Science, 45(7). https://doi.org/10.1111/cogs.13012

Abramov, Olga, Kern, Friederike, Koutalidis, Sofia, Mertens, Ulrich, Rohlfing, Katharina, and Kopp, Stefan. 2021. “ The relation between cognitive abilities and the distribution of semantic features across speech and gesture in 4-year-olds”. Cognitive Science 45 (7).

Abramov, O., Kern, F., Koutalidis, S., Mertens, U., Rohlfing, K., and Kopp, S. (2021). The relation between cognitive abilities and the distribution of semantic features across speech and gesture in 4-year-olds. Cognitive Science 45.

Abramov, O., et al., 2021. The relation between cognitive abilities and the distribution of semantic features across speech and gesture in 4-year-olds. Cognitive Science, 45(7).

O. Abramov, et al., “ The relation between cognitive abilities and the distribution of semantic features across speech and gesture in 4-year-olds”, Cognitive Science, vol. 45, 2021.

Abramov, O., Kern, F., Koutalidis, S., Mertens, U., Rohlfing, K., Kopp, S.: The relation between cognitive abilities and the distribution of semantic features across speech and gesture in 4-year-olds. Cognitive Science. 45, (2021).

Abramov, Olga, Kern, Friederike, Koutalidis, Sofia, Mertens, Ulrich, Rohlfing, Katharina, and Kopp, Stefan. “ The relation between cognitive abilities and the distribution of semantic features across speech and gesture in 4-year-olds”. Cognitive Science 45.7 (2021).

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