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Ingram, Joanne; Hand, Christopher J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
The influence of domain knowledge on reading behavior has received limited investigation compared to the influence of, for example, context and/or word frequency. The current study tested participants with and without domain knowledge of the "Harry Potter" (HP) universe. Fans and non-fans read sentences containing HP, high-frequency…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Knowledge Level, Fiction, Word Frequency
Keily, Holly – ProQuest LLC, 2017
A number of theories exist to explain why people gesture when speaking, when they produce gesture, and the origin of their gestures. This dissertation focuses on four individual variables that can influence gesture: (i) familiarity, (ii) imageability, (iii) codability, and (iv) motor experience. Four experiments were designed to determine how each…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Familiarity, Motor Reactions, Observation

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