When people talk, they gesture. These gestures often convey substantive information that is
related, but not always identical, to the information conveyed in speech. Gesture thus offers …

Although the general consensus is that gesture supports learning across a wide range of
learning contexts, nuances to gesture's effects are found across the gesture-for-learning …

Children can express thoughts in gesture that they do not express in speech--they produce
gesture-speech mismatches. Moreover, children who produce mismatches on a given task …

Gesturing has been shown to relay benefits to speakers and listeners alike. Speakers, for
instance, may be able to reduce their working memory load through gesture. Studies with …

Hand gestures can be beneficial in math contexts to reduce the user's cognitive load by
supporting domain-general abilities such as working memory. Although prior work has …

Decades of research have established that learners benefit when instruction includes hand
gestures. This benefit is seen when learners watch an instructor gesture, as well as when …

Students routinely gesture when they talk about mathematic concepts. Gesturing supports
accuracy in the areas of mathematics including counting and solving equations. Beyond …

When children communicate, they use both their hands for gesturing and speech for
pronouncing words. Previous research has shown that, when children are on the verge of …

Gestures are hand movements that accompany speech and convey information. We know
that gesture can help children learn. What we don't know is how individual differences affect …