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The role of gestures in autobiographical memory

Speakers employ co-speech gestures when thinking and speaking; however, gesture’s role in autobiographical episodic representations is not known. Based on the gesture-for-conceptualization framework, we propose that gestures, particularly representational ones, support episodic event representations...

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Autores principales: Aydin, Cagla, Göksun, Tilbe, Otenen, Ege, Tanis, Selma Berfin, Şentürk, Yağmur Damla
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Publicado: Public Library of Science 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9955584/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36827254
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281748
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author Aydin, Cagla
Göksun, Tilbe
Otenen, Ege
Tanis, Selma Berfin
Şentürk, Yağmur Damla
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description Speakers employ co-speech gestures when thinking and speaking; however, gesture’s role in autobiographical episodic representations is not known. Based on the gesture-for-conceptualization framework, we propose that gestures, particularly representational ones, support episodic event representations by activating existing episodic elements and causing new ones to be formed in the autobiographical recollections. These gestures may also undertake information-chunking roles to allow for further processing during remembering, such as a sense of recollective experience. Participants (N = 41) verbally narrated three events (a past autobiographical, a future autobiographical, and a non-autobiographical event) and then rated their phenomenological characteristics. We found that, even though gesture use was not different across the three event conditions, representational gestures were positively associated with the episodic event details as well as their recollective quality within the past autobiographical event narratives. These associations were not observed in future event narrations. These findings suggest that gestures are potentially instrumental in the retrieval of details in autobiographical memories.
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spelling pubmed-99555842023-02-25 The role of gestures in autobiographical memory Aydin, Cagla Göksun, Tilbe Otenen, Ege Tanis, Selma Berfin Şentürk, Yağmur Damla PLoS One Research Article Speakers employ co-speech gestures when thinking and speaking; however, gesture’s role in autobiographical episodic representations is not known. Based on the gesture-for-conceptualization framework, we propose that gestures, particularly representational ones, support episodic event representations by activating existing episodic elements and causing new ones to be formed in the autobiographical recollections. These gestures may also undertake information-chunking roles to allow for further processing during remembering, such as a sense of recollective experience. Participants (N = 41) verbally narrated three events (a past autobiographical, a future autobiographical, and a non-autobiographical event) and then rated their phenomenological characteristics. We found that, even though gesture use was not different across the three event conditions, representational gestures were positively associated with the episodic event details as well as their recollective quality within the past autobiographical event narratives. These associations were not observed in future event narrations. These findings suggest that gestures are potentially instrumental in the retrieval of details in autobiographical memories. Public Library of Science 2023-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC9955584/ /pubmed/36827254 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281748 Text en © 2023 Aydin et al https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9955584/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36827254
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0281748
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