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Spatial language use predicts spatial memory of children: evidence from sign, speech, and speech-plus-gesture

Title	Spatial language use predicts spatial memory of children: evidence from sign, speech, and speech-plus-gesture
Author	Karadöller, D. Z., Sümer, B., Ünal, Ercenur, Özyürek, A.
Publication Date:	2021
Publication Place	- The Cognitive Science Society
Subject	Co-speech gesture, Sign language, Spatial language, Spatial memory
Type	Document
Language	English
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	No
Library:	Özyeğin University
Library Asset ID	2-s2.0-85126343186
Record ID	68cc0ede-889e-48c7-9392-2280c7a901bb
Library Location	Psychology
Date	2021
Notes	Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek
Sample Text	There is a strong relation between children’s exposure to spatial terms and their later memory accuracy. In the current study, we tested whether the production of spatial terms by children themselves predicts memory accuracy and whether and how language modality of these encodings modulates memory accuracy differently. Hearing child speakers of Turkish and deaf child signers of Turkish Sign Language described pictures of objects in various spatial relations to each other and later tested for their memory accuracy of these pictures in a surprise memory task. We found that having described the spatial relation between the objects predicted better memory accuracy. However, the modality of these descriptions in sign, speech, or speech-plus-gesture did not reveal differences in memory accuracy. We discuss the implications of these findings for the relation between spatial language, memory, and the modality of encoding.
Cilt	43

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Spatial language use predicts spatial memory of children: evidence from sign, speech, and speech-plus-gesture

Author Karadöller, D. Z., Sümer, B., Ünal, Ercenur, Özyürek, A.

Publication Date 2021

Publication Place - The Cognitive Science Society

Subject Co-speech gesture, Sign language, Spatial language, Spatial memory

Type Document

Language English

Digital Yes

Manuscript No

Library Özyeğin University

Library Asset ID 2-s2.0-85126343186

Record ID 68cc0ede-889e-48c7-9392-2280c7a901bb

Library Location Psychology

Date 2021

Notes Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek

Sample Text There is a strong relation between children’s exposure to spatial terms and their later memory accuracy. In the current study, we tested whether the production of spatial terms by children themselves predicts memory accuracy and whether and how language modality of these encodings modulates memory accuracy differently. Hearing child speakers of Turkish and deaf child signers of Turkish Sign Language described pictures of objects in various spatial relations to each other and later tested for their memory accuracy of these pictures in a surprise memory task. We found that having described the spatial relation between the objects predicted better memory accuracy. However, the modality of these descriptions in sign, speech, or speech-plus-gesture did not reveal differences in memory accuracy. We discuss the implications of these findings for the relation between spatial language, memory, and the modality of encoding.

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