Encouraging kids to beat: Children's beat gesture production boosts their narrative performance

I Vilà‐Giménez, P Prieto - Developmental Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
… producing iconic gestures facilitated participant's memory recall. A study by Cook, Yip, and
Goldin-Meadow (2010) reported positive effects of producing iconic gestures (vs. no gesture) …

Pointing with a pen: The role of gesture in early childhood writing

DW Rowe - Reading Research Quarterly, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… This study explored the connection between gesture and writing in early childhood.
Participants were 139 children ages 2 years 6 months to 5 years 11 months attending two US …

A framework for identifying and developing children's creative thinking while coding with digital technologies

…, M Joubert, E Cross, S Wilson - Issues in Educational …, 2020 - search.informit.org
… or gestures, but what differentiates it from creative doing or … environment that supports
childrens creative thinking. These … the environment to facilitate childrens creativity. Intentional …

Embodied displays of “doing thinking.” Epistemic and interactive functions of thinking displays in children's argumentative activities

V Heller - Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
… This paper addresses these issues and examines thinking faces in children's argumentative
… Since the analytical focus is not on gesture, I do not transcribe different gesture phases to …

When our hands help us understand: A meta-analysis into the effects of gesture on comprehension.

N Dargue, N Sweller, MP Jones - Psychological Bulletin, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
gesture promotes comprehension is not new, with research dating back to the 1970s. However,
when gestures are … This meta-analysis explored 2 questions: whether and when gestures

Role of embodied movement in assessing creative behavior in early childhood: a focused review

E Frith, PD Loprinzi, SE Miller - Perceptual and Motor Skills, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
… In this focused review of developmental research, we suggest that embodied movements
and interactive play may uniquely facilitate creative thinking in early childhood (ie, from birth to …

Teaching analogical reasoning with co-speech gesture shows children where to look, but only boosts learning for some

KF Guarino, EM Wakefield - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
gesture can support childrens understanding of spoken instruction and whether the benefit
of teaching though speech and gesture … explore the impact of gesture in analogical reasoning…

Touch gesture performed by children under 3 years old when drawing and coloring on a tablet

LC Lanna, MG Oro - International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 2019 - Elsevier
… of children under 3 with two creativity-focused apps. One app will allow them to draw freely
on a blank white page while their spontaneous gestures … differences in the gestures used, as …

Multimodal creative inquiry: Theorising a new approach for children's Science meaning-making in Early Childhood Education

S Kewalramani, N Veresov - Research in Science Education, 2022 - Springer
… , becomes a child-centred method if creative thinking emerges from the childs play as an …
, the muscles to make facial expressions and gestures) or technological ones like pen and ink, …

Integrating embodied cognition and information processing: A combined model of the role of gesture in children's mathematical environments

R Gordon, GB Ramani - Frontiers in psychology, 2021 - frontiersin.org
children's EF and math abilities (see Clements et al., 2016 for a review), as well as gestures
… In this review, we discuss how children's use of and exposure to hand gestures during math …