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Does the hand reflect implicit knowledge? Yes and no

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 October 1999

Susan Goldin-Meadow  and
Martha Wagner Alibali
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637 sgsg@ccp.uchicago.edu www.ccp.uchicago.edu/faculty.shtml
Martha Wagner Alibali
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213 alibali@andrew.cmu.edu www.psy.cmu.edu/psy/faculty/malibali.html
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Abstract

Gesture does not have a fixed position in the Dienes & Perner framework. Its status depends on the way knowledge is expressed. Knowledge reflected in gesture can be fully implicit (neither factuality nor predication is explicit) if the goal is simply to move a pointing hand to a target. Knowledge reflected in gesture can be explicit (both factuality and predication are explicit) if the goal is to indicate an object. However, gesture is not restricted to these two extreme positions. When gestures are unconscious accompaniments to speech and represent information that is distinct from speech, the knowledge they convey is factuality-implicit but predication-explicit.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 22 , Issue 5 , October 1999 , pp. 766 - 767
Copyright
© 1999 Cambridge University Press

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