BODY MOVEMENT IN RELATION TO TYPE OF INFORMATION (PERSON- AND NONPERSON-ORIENTED) AND COGNITIVE STYLE (FIELD DEPENDENCE)<sup>1</sup>

Sousa-Poza, Joaquin F.; Rohrberg, Robert

doi:10.1111/j.1468-2958.1977.tb00592.x

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“…The difficulties of transmitting nonverbal, analogic information into a digital, verbal code are well known (cf. Sousa-Posa & Rohrberg, 1977;Wilden, 1972aWilden, , 1972b. While delays and distortions occur in the interhemispheric transmission of information, the brain hemispheres do not function in complete isolation.…”

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Implications of a Neurophysiological Approach for the Study of a Nonverbal Communication

1979

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This article reviews the neurophysiological literature as it pertains to nonverbal communication. It provides an overview of research on the functionof the cerebral hemispheres as related to communication, with particular emphasis on the right hemisphere where most nonverbal communication is processed. Limitations of the neurophysiological approach are discussed. Finally, implications of the neurophysiological approach are discussed for: (1) defining nonverbal communication, (2) the phylogenetic development of communication in humans, and (3) communication research and theory.

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Section: Functional Independence Of the Hemispheresmentioning

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Implications of a Neurophysiological Approach for the Study of a Nonverbal Communication

1979

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“…In this context it is appropriate to mention some studies in which arousal states are asso-ciated with observable behaviour. Body touching behaviour is considered to be indicative of the degree of anxiety or arousal in normal subjects (28,31,32) or the degree of uncertainty encoutered in the encoding process (32,35). Head movements are reported to occur relative to the stream of speech (36,37) and to be related to elements of speech such as stress, juncture, tone, etc (38).…”

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Prediction of clinical change by ethological methods

Bouhuys

Beersma²,

Hoofdakker

1988

Acta Psychiatr Scand

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The aim of this paper is to show that ethology may contribute to the search for early indicators of clinical changes in depression. Three studies are presented. One study deals with the prediction of treatment outcome over 10 weeks and the other two with the prediction of the acute clinical response to total sleep deprivation (TSD). In each study a number of behaviours were observed, as displayed during a baseline psychiatric interview by the patients as well as the psychiatrist. In this report, the predictive potency of directly observed behaviours is compared to the predictive value of global clinical measures of psychomotor activation. The behaviours of the patients were interpreted as "relational" and "nonrelational" behaviours. The relational behaviours (i.e., variation in looking, yes-nodding, gesturing) occurred less, the nonrelational behaviours (i.e., intensive body touching, head movements) occurred more in responders than in nonresponders to 10 weeks of treatment. Also in the TSD studies body touching was positively related to improvement. Global clinical assessment of psychomotor activation could not be related to outcome. The advantages of the observational methods are discussed.

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“…In a systemdiscussing impersonal topics (Sousa-Poza & Rohrberg, 1977); and during interference tasks (a Stroop test) versus tasks that required spatial imagination and anticipation (Barroso, Freedman, Grand, & Van Meel, 1978).…”

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Coding gestural behavior with the NEUROGES-ELAN system

Lausberg

Sloetjes

2009

Behavior Research Methods

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Knowledge about gestural behavior is theoretically relevant for understanding cognitive, emotional, and interactive processes, but it also has far-reaching practical implications for diagnostics and therapy in the clinical context, for learning processes, and for obtaining communicative competencies. Thus, research on gestural behavior is conducted in several academic disciplines, including neuroscience, medicine, psychology, linguistics, anthropology, and social sciences. Especially because of the shift in recent decades toward transferring information through visual media, a thorough knowledge of how gesture reflects and affects the gesturer's thinking and feeling, as well as of how it influences the recipient's cognitive and emotional processes, is becoming increasingly important.Despite many examinations carried through in various disciplines, the state of knowledge about the neuropsychology of gestural behavior has not developed far beyond the popular level (i.e., "body language"). This situation is partly due to methodological deficiencies in the analysis of gestural behavior. In many studies, gesture units and gesture types are not clearly defined, and interrater agreement is rarely examined. Furthermore, the assumptions behind the diverse gesture classifications applied in the studies are not made transparent, and sometimes there is an implicit claim that the particular coding system suits all research questions. In addition, different forms of presenting data (e.g., in terms of total numbers [n] of gesturesn/min, n/5 min, n/100 words, n/time speaking, n/time of interview, or logarithms-or of handedness-right vs. left hands only; right, left, or both hands; no differentiation of hand laterality; or handedness indices) are an obstacle for comparing the results of different studies and for gradually building up a corpus of knowledge on gestural behavior. By way of example, the apparent contradictions between study results on the relationship between aphasia (loss of the ability to produce and/or comprehend language) and gesture production/comprehension-that is, between an equally distributed deficit and a compensatory use of gestures (see, e.g., Lott, 1999)-are mainly due to a lack of scrutiny during development of the study methods.A similar situation exists in the area of media annotation, even when only the digital era is considered. A variety of tools are available to the public, each designed for a certain group of users with a specific task or a particular platform (operating system) in mind. The data produced by these tools are stored in various ways and in different formats. This is another obstacle to interoperability and comparison, in addition to those mentioned above.The XML (Extensible Markup Language) data produced by the majority of contemporary tools are a significant improvement on the old-time proprietary formats. XML data are relatively easy to transform, but nevertheless the conversion is rarely lossless. In an attempt to improve interoperability between tools from multiple modalities, ...

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BODY MOVEMENT IN RELATION TO TYPE OF INFORMATION (PERSON- AND NONPERSON-ORIENTED) AND COGNITIVE STYLE (FIELD DEPENDENCE)¹

Cited by 24 publications

References 25 publications

Implications of a Neurophysiological Approach for the Study of a Nonverbal Communication

Implications of a Neurophysiological Approach for the Study of a Nonverbal Communication

Prediction of clinical change by ethological methods

Coding gestural behavior with the NEUROGES-ELAN system

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Cited by 24 publications

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Implications of a Neurophysiological Approach for the Study of a Nonverbal Communication

Implications of a Neurophysiological Approach for the Study of a Nonverbal Communication

Prediction of clinical change by ethological methods

Coding gestural behavior with the NEUROGES-ELAN system

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