{"status":"ok","message-type":"work","message-version":"1.0.0","message":{"indexed":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,2]],"date-time":"2026-07-02T20:19:49Z","timestamp":1783023589691,"version":"3.54.6"},"reference-count":23,"publisher":"Wiley","issue":"2","license":[{"start":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,20]],"date-time":"2026-01-20T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1768867200000},"content-version":"vor","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/"},{"start":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,20]],"date-time":"2026-01-20T00:00:00Z","timestamp":1768867200000},"content-version":"tdm","delay-in-days":0,"URL":"http:\/\/doi.wiley.com\/10.1002\/tdm_license_1.1"}],"content-domain":{"domain":["onlinelibrary.wiley.com"],"crossmark-restriction":true},"short-container-title":["Developmental Science"],"published-print":{"date-parts":[[2026,3]]},"abstract":"ABSTRACT<\/jats:title>\n \n \n \n How do children allocate visual attention to scenes as they prepare to describe them multimodally in speech and co\u2010speech gesture? In an eye\u2010tracking study, Turkish\u2010speaking 8\u2010year\u2010old children viewed four\u2010picture displays depicting the same two objects in different spatial relations as they prepared to describe target pictures depicting\n left<\/jats:sc>\n \u2010\n right<\/jats:sc>\n relations. Children's visual attention was sustained on the target picture when they were planning descriptions that expressed the spatial relation multimodally in speech and gesture, but not unimodally in speech only. This pattern persisted regardless of the semantic relation between speech and gesture (i.e., for both complementary gestures that disambiguated speech and redundant gestures that supplemented already unambiguous speech). Importantly, visual attention patterns did not differ across description types while children were previewing the displays before message preparation. These results indicate that multimodal message preparation might place different demands on visual attention than unimodal message preparation, possibly due to the affordances of gestures for expressing spatial relations.\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>\n \n Summary<\/jats:title>\n \n \n \n We test the idea that the way children attend to spatial relations prior to communication is related to how they end up describing them.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:list-item>\n \n Children's attention was sustained on spatial scenes when they were planning multimodal spatial descriptions in speech and gesture, but not unimodal descriptions in speech only.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:list-item>\n \n Planning multimodal descriptions was associated with sustained attention on the spatial scenes regardless of the semantic relation between speech and gesture.<\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:list-item>\n <\/jats:list>\n <\/jats:p>\n <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1111\/desc.70128","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,20]],"date-time":"2026-01-20T11:57:03Z","timestamp":1768910223000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1002\/crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":1,"title":["Children Sustain Their Attention on Spatial Scenes When Planning to Describe Spatial Relations Multimodally in Speech and Gesture"],"prefix":"10.1111","volume":"29","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-6794-2129","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ercenur","family":"\u00dcnal","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen the Netherlands"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Dilay Z.","family":"Karad\u00f6ller","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen the Netherlands"},{"name":"Middle East Technical University Ankara Turkey"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Asl\u0131","family":"\u00d6zy\u00fcrek","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics Nijmegen the Netherlands"},{"name":"Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behaviour Radboud University Nijmegen the Netherlands"}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]}],"member":"311","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,20]]},"reference":[{"key":"e_1_2_10_2_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/13875868.2020.1825442"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_3_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.18637\/jss.v067.i01"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_4_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1080\/23273798.2016.1175649"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_5_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.5334\/gjgl.1210"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_6_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2011.10.002"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_7_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.actpsy.2017.06.001"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_8_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/S0305000918000120"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_9_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1075\/gest.7.1.03rui"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_10_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.jml.2007.01.007"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_11_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S1364\u20106613(99)01397\u20102"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_12_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/1467\u20109280.00255"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_13_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.tics.2019.05.006"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_14_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/S0305000900005845"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_15_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1177\/01427237241290678"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_16_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/S0305000922000642"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_17_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0749\u2010596X(02)00505\u20103"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_18_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1017\/CBO9780511620850.017"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_19_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.3758\/BRM.41.3.841"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_20_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.7551\/mitpress\/6393.001.0001"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_21_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/S0010\u20100277(98)00009\u20102"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_22_1","unstructured":"R Core Team.2024.R: A language and environment for statistical computing(Version 4.4.1) [Computer software]. R Foundation for Statistical Computing.https:\/\/www.R\u2010project.org\/."},{"key":"e_1_2_10_23_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1111\/cogs.70046"},{"key":"e_1_2_10_24_1","doi-asserted-by":"publisher","DOI":"10.1016\/j.cognition.2022.105127"}],"container-title":["Developmental Science"],"original-title":[],"language":"en","link":[{"URL":"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1111\/desc.70128","content-type":"application\/pdf","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/full-xml\/10.1111\/desc.70128","content-type":"application\/xml","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"text-mining"},{"URL":"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1111\/desc.70128","content-type":"unspecified","content-version":"vor","intended-application":"similarity-checking"}],"deposited":{"date-parts":[[2026,7,2]],"date-time":"2026-07-02T19:42:07Z","timestamp":1783021327000},"score":1,"resource":{"primary":{"URL":"https:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/desc.70128"}},"subtitle":[],"short-title":[],"issued":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,20]]},"references-count":23,"journal-issue":{"issue":"2","published-print":{"date-parts":[[2026,3]]}},"alternative-id":["10.1111\/desc.70128"],"URL":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1111\/desc.70128","archive":["Portico"],"relation":{},"ISSN":["1363-755X","1467-7687"],"issn-type":[{"value":"1363-755X","type":"print"},{"value":"1467-7687","type":"electronic"}],"subject":[],"published":{"date-parts":[[2026,1,20]]},"assertion":[{"value":"2025-06-13","order":0,"name":"received","label":"Received","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}},{"value":"2025-12-19","order":2,"name":"accepted","label":"Accepted","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}},{"value":"2026-01-20","order":3,"name":"published","label":"Published","group":{"name":"publication_history","label":"Publication History"}}],"article-number":"e70128"}}