PSY274H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Pseudoword, Proxemics, Crossed Fingers
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Elements of communication that don"t involve language specifically. We will work up to the phenomena of co-speech gesture. Notion of channels of communication: vocal auditory (speech) or manual-visual (sign) Standing features of interaction: appearance, clothes, bodily adornment. Broader aspects of body language : proxemics, haptics. Eyes and faces: attentional cueing and eye gaze, emotional expression, audiovisual integration in speech processing. Appearance, clothes, bodily adornment: what the individual chooses to wear conveys something, choice of wearing jewelry, lipstick or tattoos etc. Proxemics refers to parameters for spacing between individuals or for rules governing touch. Usually depend on cultural and social factors, although some individual-level variations: like when people get in our space, we also have rules for when people become to. Eye gaze: human eye: sclera surrounding pupil and iris lacks pigmentation; visible portion of eye is comparatively large for body size, not true of other primates.
