Gestures and Visual Speech Reception

A total of 60 university students with normal hearing and normal vision received 30 six-word sentences by vision alone under one of six conditions: no gestures, inappropriate discrete gestures, inappropriate continuous gestures, appropriate discrete gestures, or appropriate continuous gestures. Mean...

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Published in:American annals of the deaf (Washington, D.C. 1886) D.C. 1886), 1971-08, Vol.116 (4), p.434-436
Main Authors: Popelka, Gerald R., Berger, Kenneth W.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Analysis of Variance
Audiology
Communication
Deafness - rehabilitation
Gestures
Hands
Humans
Kinetics
Lip reading
Lipreading
Middle Aged
Movement
Performance enhancing substances
Speech
Visual Perception
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Summary:A total of 60 university students with normal hearing and normal vision received 30 six-word sentences by vision alone under one of six conditions: no gestures, inappropriate discrete gestures, inappropriate continuous gestures, appropriate discrete gestures, or appropriate continuous gestures. Mean correct responses to words within the test sentences increased from 50 to 70 with discrete or continuous appropriate gestures and decreased to approximately 25 with either type of inappropriate gesture. It is concluded that appropriate gestures, either of the discrete or continuous variety, substantially enhance speechreading performance and that inappropriate gestures reduce speechreading performance.
ISSN:0002-726X
1543-0375