“…The present work explored the role of cognitive load from both word abstractness and social constraint of gesture prohibition, and it incorporated motion-capture technology to test quantitative measures of movement in the same model. An important limitation of present work is that participants could see their hands, confounding with production any recourse to neural mechanisms sensitive to gesture perception in concrete and abstract speech contexts (Straube, Green, Bromberger, & Kircher, 2011), particularly in relation to subsequent memory (Straube, Meyer, Green, & Kircher, 2014). Confederate recall might have helped to disentangle such perception-production confounds, but because we used the same confederate repeatedly (within each gender), these recall scores would themselves have repetition effects requiring further disentangling.…”