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University of Warwick: Coventry, Coventry, GB

2013-07-01 to present | Professor (Psychology)
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Sotaro Kita

Education and qualifications (3)

University of Chicago: Chicago, IL, US

1988-10-01 to 1993-07-15 | PhD (Psychology and Linguistics)
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Sotaro Kita

University of Tokyo: Tokyo, JP

1986-04-01 to 1988-03-31 | MEgn (Information Engineering)
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Sotaro Kita

University of Tokyo: Tokyo, JP

1982-04-01 to 1986-03-31 | BEng (Mathematical Engineering)
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Sotaro Kita

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Multisensory integration of speech and gestures in a naturalistic paradigm

Human Brain Mapping
2024-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Magdalena Matyjek; Sotaro Kita; Mireia Torralba Cuello; Salvador Soto Faraco
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Five Adjectives to Convey What Good Research Culture Looks Like

Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal
2024-08-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Sotaro Kita
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Why Do We Need an International Research Culture Conference?

Exchanges: The Interdisciplinary Research Journal
2024-08-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Chandrika Nair; Sotaro Kita
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Do 14–17-month-old infants use iconic speech and gesture cues to interpret word meanings?

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America
2024-07-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Suzanne Aussems; Lottie Devey Smith; Sotaro Kita
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Multisensory Integration of Naturalistic Speech and Gestures in Autistic Adults

2024-06-25 | Preprint
Contributors: Magdalena Matyjek; Sotaro Kita; Mireia Torralba Cuello; Salvador Soto Faraco
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AME: The Autonomous Multimodal Experiment System

2024-05-15 | Preprint
Contributors: Jiahao Yang; Sotaro Kita
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More Empathetic Hearing Speakers Create More Communicatively Effective Gestural Symbols in a Rudimentary Communication System

2024-05-15 | Preprint
Contributors: Jiahao Yang; Sotaro Kita
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Multisensory Integration of Speech and Gestures in a Naturalistic Paradigm

2024-02-26 | Preprint
Contributors: Magdalena Matyjek; Sotaro Kita; Mireia Torralba Cuello; Salvador Soto-Faraco
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The origin of the term, "co-speech gesture"

2023-09-06 | Preprint
Contributors: Sotaro Kita
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Encouraging pointing with the right hand, but not the left hand, gives right‐handed 3‐year‐olds a linguistic advantage

Developmental Science
2023-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Katherine H. Mumford; Suzanne Aussems; Sotaro Kita
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Gesture links language and cognition for spoken and signed languages

Nature Reviews Psychology
2023-05-25 | Journal article
Contributors: Sotaro Kita; Karen Emmorey
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Finish What you Started: 2‐Year‐Olds Motivated by a Preference for Completing Others’ Unfinished Actions in Instrumental Helping Contexts

Cognitive Science
2022-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0364-0213
Part of ISSN: 1551-6709
Contributors: John Michael; Alexander Green; Barbora Siposova; Keith Jensen; Sotaro Kita
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Sotaro Kita

"Prior experience with unlabeled actions promotes 3-year-old children’s verb learning": Correction.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
2022-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Suzanne Aussems; Katherine H. Mumford; Sotaro Kita
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Prior experience with unlabeled actions promotes 3-year-old children’s verb learning.

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
2022-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Suzanne Aussems; Katherine H. Mumford; Sotaro Kita
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Letter to the Editors of Psychological Science: How to measure a psychological construct in cross-national comparison: Regarding Rhoads et al. (2021)

Paychological Science
2021 | Journal article | Writing - original draft
Contributors: Sotaro Kita
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Sotaro Kita

Stopping at nothing: Two-year-olds differentiate between interrupted and abandoned goals

Journal of Experimental Child Psychology
2021-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0022-0965
Contributors: Alexander Green; Barbora Siposova; Sotaro Kita; John Michael
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Sotaro Kita

Beyond the Shape of Things: Infants Can Be Taught to Generalize Nouns by Objects’ Functions

Psychological Science
2021-07 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0956-7976
Part of ISSN: 1467-9280
Contributors: Cecilia Zuniga-Montanez; Sotaro Kita; Suzanne Aussems; Andrea Krott
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Sotaro Kita

Low speech rate but high gesture rate during conversational interaction in people with Cornelia de Lange syndrome

Journal of Intellectual Disability Research
2021-06 | Journal article
Contributors: E. Pearson; E. Nielsen; S. Kita; L. Groves; L. Nelson; J. Moss; C. Oliver
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Multimodal language processing: How preceding discourse constrains gesture interpretation and affects gesture integration when gestures do not synchronise with semantic affiliates

Journal of Memory and Language
2021-04 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0749-596X
Contributors: Isabella Fritz; Sotaro Kita; Jeannette Littlemore; Andrea Krott
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Seeing Iconic Gesture Promotes First‐ and Second‐Order Verb Generalization in Preschoolers

Child Development
2021-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Suzanne Aussems; Sotaro Kita
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Syntactic Structure Influences Speech-Gesture Synchronization

Letters on Evolutionary Behavioral Science
2020-03-16 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1884-927X
Contributors: Kei Kashiwadate; Tetsuya Yasuda; Koji Fujita; Sotaro Kita; Harumi Kobayashi
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Cross-linguistically shared and language-specific sound symbolism in novel words elicited by locomotion videos in Japanese and English

PLoS ONE
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85069609476

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19326203

Contributors: Saji, N.; Akita, K.; Kantartzis, K.; Kita, S.; Imai, M.
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Information packaging in speech shapes information packaging in gesture: The role of speech planning units in the coordination of speech-gesture production

Journal of Memory and Language
2019 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85054624498

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0749596X

Contributors: Fritz, I.; Kita, S.; Littlemore, J.; Krott, A.
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Sound Symbolism Facilitates Long-Term Retention of the Semantic Representation of Novel Verbs in Three-Year-Olds

Languages
2019-03-28 | Journal article
Contributors: Katerina Kantartzis; Mutsumi Imai; Danielle Evans; Sotaro Kita
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Gesture
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85068570135

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15699773 15681475

Contributors: Kita, S.
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Gestural depiction of motion events in narrative increases symbolic distance with age

LIA Language, Interaction and Acquisition
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85047449528

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18797873 18797865

Contributors: Sekine, K.; Wood, C.; Kita, S.
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Gesture
2018 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85084573056

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15699773 15681475

Contributors: Kita, S.
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Sotaro Kita via Scopus - Elsevier

Hand Matters: Left-hand Gestures Enhance Metaphor Explanation

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition
2017 | Journal article
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grade
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How Do Gestures Influence Thinking and Speaking? The Gesture-for-Conceptualization Hypothesis

Psychological Review
2017 | Journal article
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Sotaro Kita
grade
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Individual differences in children’s co-representation of self and other in joint action

Child Development
2017 | Journal article
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Sotaro Kita
grade
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Representational gestures help speakers package information for speaking

Why Gesture? How the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating
2017 | Book chapter
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Sotaro Kita

Satellite-Vs. Verb-framing underpredicts nonverbal motion categorization insights from a large language sample and simulations

Cognitive Semantics
2017 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-85060146674

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23526416 23526408

Contributors: Montero-Melis, G.; Eisenbeiss, S.; Narasimhan, B.; Ibarretxe-Antuñano, I.; Kita, S.; Kopecka, A.; Lüpke, F.; Nikitina, T.; Tragel, I.; Jaeger, T.F. et al.
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The listener automatically uses spatial story representations from the speaker's cohesive gestures when processing subsequent sentences without gestures

Acta Psychologica
2017-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Kazuki Sekine; Sotaro Kita
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Representational gestures help speakers package information for speaking

2017-04-26 | Book chapter
Contributors: Martha W. Alibali; Amelia Yeo; Autumn B. Hostetter; Sotaro Kita
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At 10-12 months, pointing gesture handedness predicts the size of receptive vocabularies

Infancy
2016 | Journal article
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Co-thought and Co-speech Gestures Are Generated by the Same Action Generation Process

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition
2016 | Journal article
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grade
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Applying pattern-based classification to sequences of gestures

Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society
2015 | Book chapter
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Sotaro Kita

Development of multimodal discourse comprehension: cohesive use of space by gestures

Language, Cognition and Neuroscience
2015 | Journal article
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Semantics is crucial for the right-hemisphere involvement in metaphor processing: Evidence from mouth asymmetry during speaking

Laterality: Asymmetries of Body, Brain and Cognition
2015 | Journal article
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grade
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Sound Symbolism Facilitates Word Learning in 14-Month-Olds

PloS ONE
2015 | Journal article
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grade
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Sound symbolism scaffolds language development in preverbal infants

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grade
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The Development of the Ability to Semantically Integrate Information in Speech and Iconic Gesture in Comprehension

Cognitive Science
2015 | Journal article
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grade
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The influence of clause structure on gestural depiction of motion events

Gesture and Speech in Interaction - 4th Edition (GESPIN 4)
2015 | Book chapter
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Sotaro Kita

The parallel development of the form and meaning of two-handed gestures and linguistic information packaging within a clause in narrative

Open Linguistics
2015 | Journal article
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Universality and language-specificity in sound symoblic words: Results from a production experiment (音象徴語に潜む言語普遍性と個別性:産出実験からのアプローチ)

Papers from the National Conference of the Japanese Cognitive Linguistics Association (日本認知言語学会論文集)
2015 | Journal article
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Annotation of space and manner/path configuration in bilinguals' speech and manual gestures

Lrec 2014 - Ninth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation
2014 | Journal article
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WOS:000355611001007

Contributors: Cavicchio, Federica; Brown, Amanda; Furman, Reyhan; Allen, Shanley; Ozyurek, Asli; Ishizuka, Tomoko; Kita, Sotaro
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Sign Language and Linguistics (Online)
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84918775443

Part of ISBN:

1569996X 13879316

Contributors: Van Der Hulst, H.; Kita, S.
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Authors' preface

Sign Language and Linguistics (Online)
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84918769303

Part of ISBN:

1569996X 13879316

Contributors: Van Der Hulst, H.; Kita, S.
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Children Use Gesture to Interpret Novel Verb Meanings

Child Development
2014 | Journal article
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WOS:000335786600024

Contributors: Mumford, Katherine H.; Kita, Sotaro
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Children Use Gesture to Interpret Novel Verb Meanings

Child Development
2014 | Journal article
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