Sotaro Kita
| Sotaro Kita | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Psychologist |
| Language | English, Japanese |
| Education | B.A., Mathematical engineering and [Master of Arts|[M.A.]] Information engineering, University of Tokyo; Ph.D in psychology and linguistics, University of Chicago, United States |
| Alma mater | University of Chicago, USA |
| Period | 1993 |
| Genre | Psychology |
| Subject | Scientific research into psycholinguistics; language, thought and gesture |
Sotaro Kita is a professor in the Department of Psychology at The University of Warwick. Professor Kita's work focuses on the Psycholinguistics properties of co-speech gesture, the relationship between spatial language, developmental psychology and cognition and sound symbolism. Kita received his PhD from the University of Chicago, working in the lab of David McNeill. from 1993-2003 he led the Gesture Project at Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, one of the research foci of the MPI.
From April 2017 he is the editor of GESTURE (published by John Benjamins of Amsterdam). From 2012–2014 he was the president of the International Society for Gesture Studies, and vice-president from 2010-2012.
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