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Direct linkArgyriou, Paraskevi; Mohr, Christine; Kita, Sotaro – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2017
Research suggests that speech-accompanying gestures influence cognitive processes, but it is not clear whether the gestural benefit is specific to the gesturing hand. Two experiments tested the "(right/left) hand-specificity" hypothesis for self-oriented functions of gestures: gestures with a particular hand enhance cognitive processes…
Descriptors: Handedness, Nonverbal Communication, Figurative Language, Cognitive Processes
Casasanto, Daniel – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2009
Do people with different kinds of bodies think differently? According to the "body-specificity hypothesis," people who interact with their physical environments in systematically different ways should form correspondingly different mental representations. In a test of this hypothesis, 5 experiments investigated links between handedness and the…
Descriptors: Handedness, Cognitive Processes, Physical Environment, Hypothesis Testing
