Gestures are adept at expressing perceptual and motor information. In this chapter, we
propose that, as representational actions, gestures both stem from and influence perceptual …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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

A great deal of attention has recently been paid to gesture and its effects on thinking and
learning. This chapter sets forth a theoretical framework for exploring why gesture serves the …

The Gesture as Simulated Action (GSA) framework (Hostetter & Alibali, 2008) holds that
representational gestures are produced when actions are simulated as part of thinking and …

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 …

The spontaneous gestures that speakers produce when they talk about a task reflect aspects
of the speakers' knowledge about that task, aspects that are often not found in the speech …