Conceptualisation load triggers gesture production

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Cross-cultural variation of speech-accompanying gesture: A review (2009, background): “If speech-accompanying gestures reflect imagistic representations in the conceptual planning for speaking (Alibali, Kita, & Young, 2000; Hostetter, Alibali, & Kita, 2007; Kita, 2000; Kita, O Kita & Davies, in press; Melinger & Kita, 2007), then gestural representations of manner and path may also ”
Competing conceptual representations trigger co-speech representational gestures (2009, background): “In a similar description task, speakers produced more representational gestures when a secondary task was spatial in nature and interfered with the primary spatial description task than when the secondary task was non-spatial (Melinger & Kita, 2007).”
I see it in my hands’ eye: Representational gestures reflect conceptual demands (2007, background): “Along similar lines, Melinger and Kita ( 2001 , in press ) found that during route descriptions, adults were more likely to gesture when there was a greater choice of what to say than when there was a single obvious choice, despite the fact that the actual words spoken in both situations were nearl”
Cognitive Offloading. (2016, background): “, external normalization [9], prospective memory [10], short-term memory [28], co-speech gesture [29], and co-thought gesture [13]; representative examples are given in Figure 2).”