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Does 'wanting the best' create more stress? : The link between baby sign classes and maternal anxiety
Howlett, Neil; Kirk, Elizabeth; Pine, Karen J. (2011)This study investigated whether gesturing classes (baby sign) affected parental frustration and stress, as advertised by many commercial products. The participants were 178 mother-infant dyads, divided into a gesture group ... -
Does Baby Signing in Germany promote individualistic educational goals and disconnection?
Kirk, Elizabeth; Kiegelmann, M.; Vallotton, C. (2013) -
The effects of prohibiting gestures on children's lexical retrieval ability
Pine, Karen J.; Bird, Hannah; Kirk, Elizabeth (2007)Two alternative accounts have been proposed to explain the role of gestures in thinking and speaking. The Information Packaging Hypothesis (Kita, 2000) claims that gestures are important for the conceptual packaging of ... -
Handmade Memories : The impact of interviewers’ gestures on children’s eyewitness reports
Kirk, Elizabeth (2013) -
Handmade memories : The robustness of the gestural misinformaton effect in children's eyewitness interviews
Kirk, Elizabeth; Gurney, Daniel; Edwards, Rebecca; Dodimead, Christopher (2015-09-01)An interviewer’s gestures can convey misleading information and subsequently cause inaccuracies in the reporting of an event by both adults and children. We investigated the robustness of the gestural misinformation effect, ... -
I hear what you say but I see what you mean : the role of gestures in children's pragmatic comprehension
Kirk, Elizabeth; Pine, Karen; Ryder, Nuala (2011)This study investigated whether gesture can enhance the pragmatic comprehension of language impaired children. Language impaired children (N=21) and age matched typically developing children (N=26) were presented verbal ... -
A longitudinal investigation of the relationship between symbolic gesture, maternal mind-mindedness and theory of mind.
Kirk, Elizabeth; Pine, Karen; Wheatley, Lisa; Howlett, Neil; Schulz, Joerg; Fletcher, Ben (2015-10-10)Follow-up data are presented from a longitudinal investigation of the effects of encouraging symbolic gesture in mother-infant dyads. Infants had been randomly allocated to either gesture training or control conditions at ... -
Many hands make light work : The facilitative role of gesture in verbal improvisation
Lewis, Carine; Lovatt, Peter; Kirk, Elizabeth (2015-09-01)Verbal improvisation is cognitively demanding, placing great burden on working memory as the speaker is tasked to generate a novel, spontaneous narrative. It is at this point of cognitive overload when individuals pursuing ... -
A microgenetic analysis of the relationship between speech and gesture in children: Evidence for semantic and temporal asynchrony
Pine, K.; Lufkin, N.; Messer, D.J.; Kirk, Elizabeth (2007)We present a microgenetic analysis of the gestures that children produce as they talk about a balance task. Children gesture spontaneously on this task and here their hand gestures are considered in relation to the ... -
Mind-Mindedness in Mothers of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Kirk, Elizabeth; Sharma, Shivani (2017-11-01)Background: Little is currently understood about the ways in which caregivers represent the internal mental states of their child with autism. Previous research has shown that being mind-minded can limit the experience of ... -
The Mindedness of Maternal Touch: : An Investigation of Maternal Mind-Mindedness and Mother-Infant Touch Interactions
Crucianelli, Laura; Wheatley, Lisa; Filippetti, Maria Laura; Kirk, Elizabeth; Jenkinson, Paul; Fotopoulou, Aikaterini (2019-02)Increasing evidence shows that maternal touch may promote emotion regulation in infants, however less is known about how parental higher-order social cognition abilities are translated into tactile, affect-regulatory ... -
The relationship between symbolic gesture, maternal mind-mindedness and theory of mind.
Kirk, Elizabeth; Wheatley, Lisa (2013-09) -
To Sign or not to Sign? : The Impact of Encouraging Infants to Gesture on Infant Language and Maternal Mind-Mindedness
Kirk, Elizabeth; Howlett, Neil; Pine, Karen; Fletcher, Ben (2013)Findings are presented from the first randomized control trial of the effects of encouraging symbolic gesture (or “baby sign”) on infant language, following 40 infants from age 8 months to 20 months. Half of the mothers ...