People spontaneously produce gestures during speaking and thinking. The authors focus
here on gestures that depict or indicate information related to the contents of concurrent …

Recent research has shown that people's actions can influence how they think. A separate
body of research has shown that the gestures people produce when they speak can also …

People move their hands as they talk–they gesture. Gesturing is a robust phenomenon,
found across cultures, ages, and tasks. Gesture is even found in individuals blind from birth …

Theories of embodied cognition claim that cognitive processes are rooted in interactions of
the human body with the physical world. The core idea is that cognition depends on the …

A great deal of attention has recently been paid to gesture and its effects on thinking and
learning. It is well established that the hand movements that accompany speech are an …

Publisher Summary This chapter explores how gestures contribute to comprehension, how
gesturing affect speech and what can be learned from studying conversational gestures. The …

Spontaneous gestures that accompany speech are related to both verbal and spatial
processes. We argue that gestures emerge from perceptual and motor simulations that …

Abstract The Gesture as Simulated Action (GSA) framework was proposed to explain how
gestures arise from embodied simulations of the motor and perceptual states that occur …

Gestures maintain spatial imagery Page 1 Gestures maintain spatial imagery RICHARD W’ESP,JENNIFER
HESSE, and DONNA KEL'TMANN East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania KAREN WI {EATON …

In this paper, I compare three different assumptions about the relationship between speech,
thought and gesture. These assumptions have profound consequences for theories about …