Sotaro Kita - Publications

Affiliations: 
Psychology University of Birmingham, Birmingham, England, United Kingdom 
Area:
Gesture, spatial cognition
Website:
http://psychology-people.bham.ac.uk/people-pages/detail.php?identity=kitas

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Year Citation  Score
2020 Aussems S, Kita S. Seeing Iconic Gesture Promotes First- and Second-Order Verb Generalization in Preschoolers. Child Development. PMID 32666515 DOI: 10.1111/Cdev.13392  0.366
2020 Kashiwadate K, Yasuda T, Fujita K, Kita S, Kobayashi H. Syntactic Structure Influences Speech-Gesture Synchronization Letters On Evolutionary Behavioral Science. 11: 10-14. DOI: 10.5178/Lebs.2020.73  0.553
2019 Saji N, Akita K, Kantartzis K, Kita S, Imai M. Cross-linguistically shared and language-specific sound symbolism in novel words elicited by locomotion videos in Japanese and English. Plos One. 14: e0218707. PMID 31291274 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0218707  0.549
2019 Kantartzis K, Imai M, Evans D, Kita S. Sound Symbolism Facilitates Long-Term Retention of the Semantic Representation of Novel Verbs in Three-Year-Olds Langages. 4: 21. DOI: 10.3390/Languages4020021  0.415
2019 Fritz I, Kita S, Littlemore J, Krott A. 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. 104: 56-69. DOI: 10.1016/J.Jml.2018.09.002  0.453
2017 Aussems S, Kita S. Seeing Iconic Gestures While Encoding Events Facilitates Children's Memory of These Events. Child Development. PMID 29115673 DOI: 10.1111/Cdev.12988  0.319
2017 Aussems S, Kwok N, Kita S. GestuRe and ACtion Exemplar (GRACE) video database: stimuli for research on manners of human locomotion and iconic gestures. Behavior Research Methods. PMID 28916988 DOI: 10.3758/S13428-017-0942-2  0.432
2017 Sekine K, Kita S. The listener automatically uses spatial story representations from the speaker's cohesive gestures when processing subsequent sentences without gestures. Acta Psychologica. 179: 89-95. PMID 28750209 DOI: 10.1016/J.Actpsy.2017.07.009  0.439
2017 Kita S, Alibali MW, Chu M. How Do Gestures Influence Thinking and Speaking? The Gesture-for-Conceptualization Hypothesis. Psychological Review. PMID 28240923 DOI: 10.1037/Rev0000059  0.375
2017 Argyriou P, Mohr C, Kita S. Hand Matters: Left-Hand Gestures Enhance Metaphor Explanation. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. PMID 28080121 DOI: 10.1037/Xlm0000337  0.355
2016 Milward SJ, Kita S, Apperly IA. Individual Differences in Children's Corepresentation of Self and Other in Joint Action. Child Development. PMID 27966800 DOI: 10.1111/Cdev.12693  0.319
2016 Mumford KH, Kita S. At 10–12 months, pointing gesture handedness predicts the size of receptive vocabularies Infancy. 21: 751-765. DOI: 10.1111/Infa.12138  0.394
2015 Chu M, Kita S. Co-thought and Co-speech Gestures Are Generated by the Same Action Generation Process. Journal of Experimental Psychology. Learning, Memory, and Cognition. PMID 26237615 DOI: 10.1037/Xlm0000168  0.459
2015 Sekine K, Sowden H, Kita S. The Development of the Ability to Semantically Integrate Information in Speech and Iconic Gesture in Comprehension. Cognitive Science. PMID 25779093 DOI: 10.1111/Cogs.12221  0.409
2015 Imai M, Miyazaki M, Yeung HH, Hidaka S, Kantartzis K, Okada H, Kita S. Sound symbolism facilitates word learning in 14-month-olds. Plos One. 10: e0116494. PMID 25695741 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0116494  0.491
2015 Asano M, Imai M, Kita S, Kitajo K, Okada H, Thierry G. Sound symbolism scaffolds language development in preverbal infants. Cortex; a Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior. 63: 196-205. PMID 25282057 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cortex.2014.08.025  0.471
2015 Argyriou P, Byfield S, Kita S. Semantics is crucial for the right-hemisphere involvement in metaphor processing: evidence from mouth asymmetry during speaking. Laterality. 20: 191-210. PMID 25175977 DOI: 10.1080/1357650X.2014.951654  0.389
2015 Sekine K, Kita S. The parallel development of the form and meaning of two-handed gestures and linguistic information packaging within a clause in narrative Open Linguistics. 1: 490-502. DOI: 10.1515/Opli-2015-0015  0.453
2015 Sekine K, Kita S. Development of multimodal discourse comprehension: cohesive use of space by gestures Language, Cognition and Neuroscience. 30: 1245-1258. DOI: 10.1080/23273798.2015.1053814  0.386
2014 Imai M, Kita S. The sound symbolism bootstrapping hypothesis for language acquisition and language evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 369: 20130298. PMID 25092666 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2013.0298  0.545
2014 Clay Z, Pople S, Hood B, Kita S. Young children make their gestural communication systems more language-like: segmentation and linearization of semantic elements in motion events. Psychological Science. 25: 1518-25. PMID 24898725 DOI: 10.1177/0956797614533967  0.488
2014 Milward SJ, Kita S, Apperly IA. The development of co-representation effects in a joint task: do children represent a co-actor? Cognition. 132: 269-79. PMID 24853630 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2014.04.008  0.304
2014 Mumford KH, Kita S. Children use gesture to interpret novel verb meanings. Child Development. 85: 1181-9. PMID 24266553 DOI: 10.1111/Cdev.12188  0.371
2014 Chu M, Meyer A, Foulkes L, Kita S. Individual differences in frequency and saliency of speech-accompanying gestures: the role of cognitive abilities and empathy. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General. 143: 694-709. PMID 23915128 DOI: 10.1037/A0033861  0.331
2014 Kita S, Van Gijn I, Van Der Hulst H. The non-linguistic status of the Symmetry Condition in signed languages: Evidence from a comparison of signs and speechaccompanying representational gestures Sign Language and Linguistics (Online). 17: 215-238. DOI: 10.1075/Sll.17.2.04Kit  0.517
2013 So WC, Kita S, Goldin-Meadow S. When do speakers use gestures to specify who does what to whom? The role of language proficiency and type of gestures in narratives. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. 42: 581-94. PMID 23337950 DOI: 10.1007/S10936-012-9230-6  0.568
2012 Matsuo A, Kita S, Shinya Y, Wood GC, Naigles L. Japanese two-year-olds use morphosyntax to learn novel verb meanings. Journal of Child Language. 39: 637-63. PMID 21910951 DOI: 10.1017/S0305000911000213  0.433
2011 Habets B, Kita S, Shao Z, Ozyurek A, Hagoort P. The role of synchrony and ambiguity in speech-gesture integration during comprehension. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 23: 1845-54. PMID 20201632 DOI: 10.1162/Jocn.2010.21462  0.707
2011 Kantartzis K, Imai M, Kita S. Japanese sound-symbolism facilitates word learning in English-speaking children Cognitive Science. 35: 575-586. DOI: 10.1111/J.1551-6709.2010.01169.X  0.509
2011 Cocks N, Morgan G, Kita S. Iconic gesture and speech integration in younger and older adults Gesture. 11: 24-39. DOI: 10.1075/Gest.11.1.02Coc  0.315
2010 Alibali MW, Kita S. Gesture highlights perceptually present information for speakers Gesture. 10: 3-28. DOI: 10.1075/Gest.10.1.02Ali  0.384
2009 So WC, Kita S, Goldin-Meadow S. Using the Hands to Identify Who Does What to Whom: Gesture and Speech Go Hand-in-Hand. Cognitive Science. 33: 115. PMID 20126430 DOI: 10.1111/J.1551-6709.2008.01006.X  0.533
2009 Gullberg M, Kita S. Attention to Speech-Accompanying Gestures: Eye Movements and Information Uptake. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior. 33: 251-277. PMID 19862347 DOI: 10.1007/S10919-009-0073-2  0.32
2009 Cocks N, Sautin L, Kita S, Morgan G, Zlotowitz S. Gesture and speech integration: an exploratory study of a man with aphasia. International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders / Royal College of Speech & Language Therapists. 44: 795-804. PMID 18821112 DOI: 10.1080/13682820802256965  0.424
2009 Kita S. Cross-cultural variation of speech-accompanying gesture: A review Language and Cognitive Processes. 24: 145-167. DOI: 10.1080/01690960802586188  0.379
2009 Kita S, Davies TS. Competing conceptual representations trigger co-speech representational gestures Language and Cognitive Processes. 24: 761-775. DOI: 10.1080/01690960802327971  0.446
2008 Chu M, Kita S. Spontaneous gestures during mental rotation tasks: insights into the microdevelopment of the motor strategy. Journal of Experimental Psychology. General. 137: 706-23. PMID 18999362 DOI: 10.1037/A0013157  0.326
2008 Imai M, Kita S, Nagumo M, Okada H. Sound symbolism facilitates early verb learning. Cognition. 109: 54-65. PMID 18835600 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2008.07.015  0.456
2008 Ozyürek A, Kita S, Allen S, Brown A, Furman R, Ishizuka T. Development of cross-linguistic variation in speech and gesture: motion events in English and Turkish. Developmental Psychology. 44: 1040-54. PMID 18605833 DOI: 10.1037/0012-1649.44.4.1040  0.732
2008 Seyfeddinipur M, Kita S, Indefrey P. How speakers interrupt themselves in managing problems in speaking: evidence from self-repairs. Cognition. 108: 837-42. PMID 18589407 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2008.05.004  0.31
2008 Kita S, Lausberg H. Generation of co-speech gestures based on spatial imagery from the right-hemisphere: evidence from split-brain patients. Cortex; a Journal Devoted to the Study of the Nervous System and Behavior. 44: 131-9. PMID 18387542 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cortex.2006.04.001  0.479
2008 Kita S. World-view of protolanguage speakers as inferred from semantics of sound symbolic words: A case of Japanese mimetics The Origins of Language: Unraveling Evolutionary Forces. 25-38. DOI: 10.1007/978-4-431-79102-7_3  0.364
2008 Senghas A, Kita S, Özyürek A. Children creating core properties of language : Evidence from an emerging sign language in Nicaragua Signs and Voices: Deaf Culture , Identity , Language, and Arts. 90-99.  0.431
2007 Ozyürek A, Willems RM, Kita S, Hagoort P. On-line integration of semantic information from speech and gesture: insights from event-related brain potentials. Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience. 19: 605-16. PMID 17381252 DOI: 10.1162/Jocn.2007.19.4.605  0.553
2007 Kita S, de Condappa O, Mohr C. Metaphor explanation attenuates the right-hand preference for depictive co-speech gestures that imitate actions. Brain and Language. 101: 185-97. PMID 17166576 DOI: 10.1016/J.Bandl.2006.11.006  0.411
2007 Allen S, Ozyürek A, Kita S, Brown A, Furman R, Ishizuka T, Fujii M. Language-specific and universal influences in children's syntactic packaging of Manner and Path: a comparison of English, Japanese, and Turkish. Cognition. 102: 16-48. PMID 16442518 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cognition.2005.12.006  0.71
2007 Bohnemeyer J, Ibarretxe-Antuñano I, Enfield NJ, Kita S, Ameka FK, Essegbey J, Lüpke F. Principles of event segmentation in language: The case of motion events Language. 83: 495-532. DOI: 10.1353/Lan.2007.0116  0.447
2007 Kita S, Özyürek A, Allen S, Brown A, Furman R, Ishizuka T. Relations between syntactic encoding and co-speech gestures: Implications for a model of speech and gesture production Language and Cognitive Processes. 22: 1212-1236. DOI: 10.1080/01690960701461426  0.723
2007 Melinger A, Kita S. Conceptualisation load triggers gesture production Language and Cognitive Processes. 22: 473-500. DOI: 10.1080/01690960600696916  0.311
2007 Hostetter AB, Alibali MW, Kita S. I see it in my hands' eye: Representational gestures reflect conceptual demands Language and Cognitive Processes. 22: 313-336. DOI: 10.1080/01690960600632812  0.309
2007 Enfield N, Kita S, de Ruiter J. Primary and secondary pragmatic functions of pointing gestures Journal of Pragmatics. 39: 1722-1741. DOI: 10.1016/J.Pragma.2007.03.001  0.36
2007 Kita S, Ide S. Nodding, aizuchi, and final particles in Japanese conversation: How conversation reflects the ideology of communication and social relationships Journal of Pragmatics. 39: 1242-1254. DOI: 10.1016/J.Pragma.2007.02.009  0.432
2006 Vigliocco G, Kita S. Language-specific properties of the lexicon: Implications for learning and processing Language and Cognitive Processes. 21: 790-816. DOI: 10.1080/016909600824070  0.501
2005 Ozyurek A, Kita S, Allen S, Furman R, Brown A. How does linguistic framing of events influence co-speech gestures? Insights from crosslinguistic variations and similarities Gesture. 5: 219-240. DOI: 10.1075/Gest.5.1.15Ozy  0.729
2004 Senghas A, Kita S, Ozyürek A. Children creating core properties of language: evidence from an emerging sign language in Nicaragua. Science (New York, N.Y.). 305: 1779-82. PMID 15375269 DOI: 10.1126/Science.1100199  0.713
2004 Majid A, Bowerman M, Kita S, Haun DB, Levinson SC. Can language restructure cognition? The case for space. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 8: 108-14. PMID 15301750 DOI: 10.1016/J.Tics.2004.01.003  0.375
2003 Lausberg H, Kita S. The content of the message influences the hand choice in co-speech gestures and in gesturing without speaking. Brain and Language. 86: 57-69. PMID 12821415 DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(02)00534-5  0.472
2003 Lausberg H, Kita S, Zaidel E, Ptito A. Split-brain patients neglect left personal space during right-handed gestures. Neuropsychologia. 41: 1317-29. PMID 12757905 DOI: 10.1016/S0028-3932(03)00047-2  0.303
2003 Lausberg H, Cruz RF, Kita S, Zaidel E, Ptito A. Pantomime to visual presentation of objects: left hand dyspraxia in patients with complete callosotomy. Brain : a Journal of Neurology. 126: 343-60. PMID 12538402 DOI: 10.1093/Brain/Awg042  0.314
2003 Kita S, Özyürek A. What does cross-linguistic variation in semantic coordination of speech and gesture reveal? Evidence for an interface representation of spatial thinking and speaking Journal of Memory and Language. 48: 16-32. DOI: 10.1016/S0749-596X(02)00505-3  0.71
2002 Levinson SC, Kita S, Haun DB, Rasch BH. Returning the tables: language affects spatial reasoning. Cognition. 84: 155-88. PMID 12175571 DOI: 10.1016/S0010-0277(02)00045-8  0.493
2001 Kita S. Semantic schism and interpretive integration in Japanese sentences with a mimetic: A reply to Tsujimura Linguistics. 39: 419-436. DOI: 10.1515/Ling.2001.017  0.423
2001 Kita S, Essegbey J. Pointing left in Ghana: How a taboo on the use of the left hand influences gestural practice Gesture. 1: 73-94. DOI: 10.1075/Gest.1.1.06Kit  0.306
2000 Alibali MW, Kita S, Young AJ. Gesture and the process of speech production: We think, therefore we gesture Language and Cognitive Processes. 15: 593-613. DOI: 10.1080/016909600750040571  0.424
1999 Kita S. Japanese Enter/Exit Verbs Without Motion Semantics Studies in Language. 23: 307-330. DOI: 10.1075/Sl.23.2.04Kit  0.439
1998 Pederson E, Danziger E, Wilkins D, Levinson SC, Kita S, Senft G. Semantic typology and spatial conceptualization Language. 74: 557-589. DOI: 10.2307/417793  0.468
1997 Kita S. Two-dimensional semantic analysis of Japanese mimetics Linguistics. 35: 379-415. DOI: 10.1515/Ling.1997.35.2.379  0.495
1997 Kita S, Gijn Iv, Hulst Hvd. Movement Phase in Signs and Co-Speech Gestures, and Their Transcriptions by Human Coders Lecture Notes in Computer Science. 1371: 23-35. DOI: 10.1007/Bfb0052986  0.385
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