The effects of hand gestures on verbal recall as a function of high- and low-verbal-skill levels |
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Authors: | Frick-Horbury Donna |
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Affiliation: | Department of Psychology, Lees McCrae College, Banner Elk, NC 28604, USA. horburydf@hotmail.com |
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Abstract: | The author examined the effects of cueing for verbal recall with the accompanying self-generated hand gestures as a function of verbal skill. There were 36 participants, half with low SAT verbal scores and half with high SAT verbal scores. Half of the participants of each verbal-skill level were cued for recall with their own gestures, and the remaining half was given a free-recall test. Cueing with self-generated gestures aided the low-verbal-skill participants so that their retrieval rate equaled that of the high-verbal-skill participants and their loss of recall over a 2-week period was minimal. This effect was stable for both concrete and abstract words. The findings support the hypothesis that gestures serve as an auxiliary code for memory retrieval. |
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