Speaking but not gesturing predicts event memory: a cross-linguistic comparison

Abstract Every day people see, describe, and remember motion events. However, the relation between multimodal encoding of events in speech gesture, memory is not yet fully understood. Moreover, whether language typology modulates this remains to be tested. This study investigates type event information (path or manner) mentioned gesture predicts which remembered varies across speakers typologically different languages. Dutch- Turkish-speakers watched described completed a surprise recognition task. For both Turkish-speakers, manner was at chance level. Participants who path during were more accurate detecting changes The mentioning did vary cross-linguistically. Finally, co-speech predict above speech. These findings suggest that how describe important than speakers’ native predicting memory. videos are available for download future research https://osf.io/p8cas/ .