Handmade Memories: The Robustness of the Gestural Misinformation Effect in Children’s Eyewitness Interviews

Kirk, Elizabeth; Gurney, Daniel J.; Edwards, R. W.; Dodimead, Christopher

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“…Fewer studies have investigated the impact of seeing iconic gestures on children's memory of nonlinguistic information, such as event memory. Some of the existing studies have shown that seeing iconic gestures at the recall stage influences children's memory of past events (e.g., Broaders & Goldin‐Meadow, ; Kirk et al., ). However, our study is the first to show that seeing iconic gestures when encoding events influences children's memory of these events.…”

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“…The two mechanisms proposed above are based on the fact that iconic gestures convey semantic information (Broaders & Goldin-Meadow, 2010;Goldin-Meadow, 2003;Goldin-Meadow, Alibali, & Church, 1993;Hostetter, 2011;Kirk et al, 2015;Mumford & Kita, 2014) by depicting a referent in a schematic manner (Chu & Kita, 2008;de Ruiter, 2000;Goldin-Meadow, 2015;Kita et al, 2017;Novack & Goldin-Meadow, 2016;Novack et al, 2014). Specifically, such schematic representations are efficient in that they help children to focus on a subset of the information useful for the task at hand, which is crucial to how observing gestures promotes cognitive processing ).…”

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“…One might argue that children are prone to the influence of seeing iconic gestures at the recall stage, because they presume that the experimenter is signaling the correct answers to them. However, Kirk, Gurney, Edwards, and Dodimead () showed that the influence of iconic gesture cannot solely be attributed to such a demand characteristic. In their study, 2‐ to 4‐year‐olds and 7‐ to 9‐year‐olds watched a video clip showing a series of events (e.g., a lady and a man roller skating) and were required to narrate the events to the experimenter afterward.…”

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Seeing Iconic Gestures While Encoding Events Facilitates Children's Memory of These Events

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Kita

2017

Child Development

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An experiment with 72 three-year-olds investigated whether encoding events while seeing iconic gestures boosts children's memory representation of these events. The events, shown in videos of actors moving in an unusual manner, were presented with either iconic gestures depicting how the actors performed these actions, interactive gestures, or no gesture. In a recognition memory task, children in the iconic gesture condition remembered actors and actions better than children in the control conditions. Iconic gestures were categorized based on how much of the actors was represented by the hands (feet, legs, or body). Only iconic hand-as-body gestures boosted actor memory. Thus, seeing iconic gestures while encoding events facilitates children's memory of those aspects of events that are schematically highlighted by gesture.

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Kita

2017

Child Development

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“…Third, iconic gesture facilitates learn- One might argue that children are prone to the influence of seeing iconic gestures at the recall stage, because they presume that the experimenter is signaling the correct answers to them. However, Kirk, Gurney, Edwards, and Dodimead (2015) showed that the influence of iconic gesture cannot solely be attributed to such a demand characteristic. In their study, 2-4-year-olds and 7-9-year-olds watched a video clip showing a series of events (e.g., a lady and a man roller-skating) and were required to narrate the events to the experimenter afterwards.…”

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How seeing iconic gestures facilitates action event memory and verb learning in 3-year-old children

Aussems

2019

Language Acquisition

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I would also like to thank Natasha Kwok for helping me record, select, and cut the video files that make up the final set. A big thank you goes to Lukasz Walasek and Neil Stewart for helping me run my norming experiments in a web-based environment. And, of course, the development of this database would not be possible without the adult participants who took part in the norming experiments. Furthermore, I would like to thank the nurseries, parents, caregivers, and children who took part in the memory and verb learning experiments reported in this dissertation. Without them, this research would not be possible. I am really grateful that the children were so sweet, excited, helpful, patient, and attentive during the tasks. I would also like to express my sincere gratitude to my first supervisor, Professor Sotaro Kita, for his excellent advice on study ideas, scientific articles, grant proposals, and strategic career choices. It was a great pleasure to brainstorm about research ideas. We have probably come up with more ideas than we could possibly investigate in the next three years (without any help). It was also a very useful experience for me to write articles together. I feel that Kita has prepared me for the academic world in the best possible way. We have been very productive over the last three years, and I hope to continue our fruitful collaboration in the years to come. I would also like to thank my second supervisor, Dr Katherine Messenger, for her invaluable advice on the practicalities of developmental research. Kate's comments on my Early Career Fellowship grant proposal were very useful. viii This thesis is submitted to the University of Warwick in support of the application for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. It has been composed by the author and has not been submitted in any previous application for any degree. The work presented (including data collection and data analyses) was carried out by the author.

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Conducting Successful Memory Interviews with Children

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Brown

2017

Child Adolesc Soc Work J

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Handmade Memories: The Robustness of the Gestural Misinformation Effect in Children’s Eyewitness Interviews

Cited by 21 publications

References 46 publications

Seeing Iconic Gestures While Encoding Events Facilitates Children's Memory of These Events

Seeing Iconic Gestures While Encoding Events Facilitates Children's Memory of These Events

How seeing iconic gestures facilitates action event memory and verb learning in 3-year-old children

Conducting Successful Memory Interviews with Children

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