{"pk":50239,"title":"Children express emotions multimodally before expressing them in speech","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Children express some concepts in their gestures before expressing them in speech (Goldin-Meadow, 2015). This phenomenon has been shown in several domains that are rich in visuospatial information. One other domain that can benefit from gestures is emotion expression (Kelly & Tran, 2023). In this study, we explored monolingual Turkish speaking children (N=23, Mage=8.6) and adults (N=19, Mage=35.6) in emotion recall after watching a silent video demonstrating a range of emotions. We coded participants' emotion expression either in speech-alone or multimodally (speech plus head/body/hand gestures and/or facial expressions). Overall, children (M=13.8, SD=6.4) recalled significantly more emotions than adults (M=9.5, SD=3.8) (p=.014). They also recalled emotions significantly more multimodally (M=8, SD=7) compared to adults (M=4.9, SD=4) (p=.03). These results corroborate previous research on children's reliance on gestures, now also extending it to the domain of emotions and by incorporating facial expressions as an alternative expression channel.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"Linguistics; Psychology; Development; Language acquisition; Language Production; Developmental analysis; Gesture analysis; Quantitative Behavior"}],"section":"Member Abstracts with Poster Presentation","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/5589w32z","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"AybŸke","middle_name":"A","last_name":"Ä°nce","name_suffix":"","institution":"Middle East Technical University","department":""},{"first_name":"Dilay","middle_name":"Z.","last_name":"Karadoller","name_suffix":"","institution":"Middle East Technical University","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2025-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/50239/galley/38201/download/"}]}