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Does the hand reflect implicit knowledge? Yes and no

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Susan Goldin-Meadow
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 [email protected] www.ccp.uchicago.edu/faculty.shtml
Martha Wagner Alibali
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 [email protected] www.psy.cmu.edu/psy/faculty/malibali.html

Abstract

Gesture does not have a fixed position in the Dienes & Perner framework. Its status depends on the way knowledge is expressed. Knowledge reflected in gesture can be fully implicit (neither factuality nor predication is explicit) if the goal is simply to move a pointing hand to a target. Knowledge reflected in gesture can be explicit (both factuality and predication are explicit) if the goal is to indicate an object. However, gesture is not restricted to these two extreme positions. When gestures are unconscious accompaniments to speech and represent information that is distinct from speech, the knowledge they convey is factuality-implicit but predication-explicit.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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