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Molecular mechanisms of neurodegeneration in the entorhinal cortex that underlie its selective vulnerability during the pathogenesis of Alzheimer's disease.

Author(s): Olajide OJ, Suvanto ME, Chapman CA

The entorhinal cortex (EC) is a vital component of the medial temporal lobe, and its contributions to cognitive processes and memory formation are supported through its extensive interconnections with the hippocampal formation. During the pathogenesis of Al...

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Pantomime (Not Silent Gesture) in Multimodal Communication: Evidence From Children's Narratives.

Author(s): Marentette P, Furman R, Suvanto ME, Nicoladis E

Pantomime has long been considered distinct from co-speech gesture. It has therefore been argued that pantomime cannot be part of gesture-speech integration. We examine pantomime as distinct from silent gesture, focusing on non-co-speech gestures that occur...

Article GUID: 33329222
Title:Pantomime (Not Silent Gesture) in Multimodal Communication: Evidence From Children's Narratives.
Authors:Marentette P,  Furman R,  Suvanto ME,  Nicoladis E
Link:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33329222
DOI:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.575952
Category:Front Psychol
PMID:33329222
Dept Affiliation: PSYCHOLOGY
1 Augustana Campus, University of Alberta, Camrose, AB, Canada.
2 School of Psychology, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, United Kingdom.
3 Center for Studies in Behavioral Neuroscience, Concordia University, Montréal, QC, Canada.
4 Department of Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada.

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Pantomime (Not Silent Gesture) in Multimodal Communication: Evidence From Children's Narratives.

Front Psychol. 2020; 11:575952

Authors: Marentette P, Furman R, Suvanto ME, Nicoladis E

Abstract

Pantomime has long been considered distinct from co-speech gesture. It has therefore been argued that pantomime cannot be part of gesture-speech integration. We examine pantomime as distinct from silent gesture, focusing on non-co-speech gestures that occur in the midst of children's spoken narratives. We propose that gestures with features of pantomime are an infrequent but meaningful component of a multimodal communicative strategy. We examined spontaneous non-co-speech representational gesture production in the narratives of 30 monolingual English-speaking children between the ages of 8- and 11-years. We compared the use of co-speech and non-co-speech gestures in both autobiographical and fictional narratives and examined viewpoint and the use of non-manual articulators, as well as the length of responses and narrative quality. The use of non-co-speech gestures was associated with longer narratives of equal or higher quality than those using only co-speech gestures. Non-co-speech gestures were most likely to adopt character-viewpoint and use non-manual articulators. The present study supports a deeper understanding of the term pantomime and its multimodal use by children in the integration of speech and gesture.

PMID: 33329222 [PubMed]