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    "pk": 25578,
    "title": "Language and Gesture Descriptions Affect Memory:\nA Nonverbal Overshadowing Effect",
    "subtitle": null,
    "abstract": "People’s memory for an event is known to be affected by their\nverbal descriptions prior to memory assessment. The present\nexperiment investigated whether the computational difficulty\nof production itself, which is known to affect what people say,\ncan shape descriptions and subsequent event memory.\nParticipants viewed simple scenes and were asked to describe\nthem using either speech or silent gesture, the latter being a\nmuch more difficult task. We hypothesized that gesturing\nparticipants would over-use action pantomimes, which would\nyield poorer Inaction (vs. Action) scene memory. Following\nscene descriptions, participants were given a forced-choice\nrecognition task to discriminate previously presented scenes\nfrom foils. Patterns of gesturing showed that gesturers used\naction pantomimes for Inaction scenes, and they performed\nreliably worse on Inaction scene memory. Increased\nproduction of action pantomimes predicted increased guesses\nfor Action scenes at test, independent of the correct response.\nImplications for memory and production are discussed",
    "language": "eng",
    "license": {
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        "short_name": "",
        "text": null,
        "url": ""
    },
    "keywords": [
        {
            "word": "memory; eyewitness memory; language\nproduction; gesture analysis; experimental research with adult\nhumans"
        }
    ],
    "section": "Papers",
    "is_remote": true,
    "remote_url": "https://escholarship.org/uc/item/23k932nb",
    "frozenauthors": [
        {
            "first_name": "Mark",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "Koranda",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Wisconsin-Madison",
            "department": ""
        },
        {
            "first_name": "Maryellen",
            "middle_name": "",
            "last_name": "MacDonald",
            "name_suffix": "",
            "institution": "University of Wisconsin-Madison",
            "department": ""
        }
    ],
    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2015-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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}