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1、Showyourhands—Areyoureallyclever?Reasoning,gestureproduction,andintelligence*UTASASSENBERG,MANJAFOTH,ISABELLWARTENBURGER,ANDELKEVANDERMEERAbstractThisstudyinvestigatestherelationshipofreasoningandgestureproductioninindividualsdifferinginfluidandcrystallizedintelligence.Itcombinesmea-suresofspee
2、dandaccuracyofprocessinggeometricanalogieswithanalysesofspontaneoushandgesturesthataccompaniedyoungadults’subsequentex-planationsofhowtheysolvedthegeometricanalogytask.Individualswithsuperiorfluidintelligenceprocessedtheanalogiesmoreefficientlythanpar-ticipantswithaveragefluidintelligence.Addit
3、ionally,theyaccompaniedtheirsubsequentexplanationswithmoregesturesexpressingmovementinnon-egocentricperspective.Furthermore,gesturing(butnotspeaking)aboutthemostrelevantaspectofthetaskwasrelatedtohigherfluidintelligence.Withinthegestures-as-simulatedactionframework,theresultssuggestthatindividu
4、alswithsuperiorfluidintelligenceengagemoreinmentalsimulationduringvi-sualimagerythanthosewithaveragefluidintelligence.Thefindingsstresstherelationshipbetweengestureproductionandgeneralcognition,suchasfluidintelligence,ratherthanitsrelationshiptolanguage.Theroleofgesturepro-ductioninthinkingandl
5、earningprocessesisdiscussed.1.IntroductionTheaimofthisstudyistocharacterizetherelationshipofreasoningandges-tureproductionandtheirinteractionwithintelligence.Wefocushereonges-turesproducedbythehandsthatrepresentsemanticcontent,oftencalledrep-resentationalgestures.Forconvenience,wewillrefertothe
6、mas“gestures”.Whenpeopleengageinconversation,gesturesthataccompanyspeecharepartofthecommunicationsystem(Kendon2005;McNeill1992,2005)andtheyreflectthinkingprocesses(Beattie2003;GarberandGoldin-Meadow2002;Goldin-Meadow2003;EmmoreyandCasey2001).Moreover,recentevidencesuggeststhatgesturingplaysacau
7、salroleinfacilitatingreasoningandlearningLinguistics49–1(2011),105–1340024–3949/11/0049–0105DOI10.1515/LING.2011.003©WalterdeGruyterBroughttoyouby
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