Talking with Your (Artificial) Hands: Communicative Hand Gestures as an Implicit Measure of Embodiment

Summary: When people talk, they move their hands to enhance meaning. Using accelerometry, we measured whether people spontaneously use their artificial limbs (prostheses) to gesture, and whether this behavior relates to everyday prosthesis use and perceived embodiment. Perhaps surprisingly, one- and...

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Main Authors: Roni O. Maimon-Mor, Emeka Obasi, Jenny Lu, Nour Odeh, Stephen Kirker, Mairéad MacSweeney, Susan Goldin-Meadow, Tamar R. Makin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020-11-01
Series:iScience
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589004220308427