Producing content‐related gestures has been found to impact students' learning, whether
such gestures are spontaneously generated by the learner in the course of problem‐solving …

Observing hand gestures during learning consistently benefits learners across a variety of
tasks. How observation of gestures benefits learning, however, is yet unanswered, and …

Hand gestures facilitate memory processes, both for newly learned material and for material
that is already understood. Gestures facilitate working memory in the moment in which they …

We assessed how highly trained dogs respond to gestural versus verbal signals when their
handlers or an unfamiliar person asked them to perform an obedience task. Dogs were …

The purpose of the present study was to investigate co-speech gesture use during
communication about pain. Speakers described a recent pain experience and the data were …

We communicate emotions in a multimodal way, yet non-verbal emotion communication is a
relatively understudied area of research. In three experiments, we investigated the role of …

Introduction Temporal co-ordination between speech and gestures has been thoroughly
studied in natural production. In most cases gesture strokes precede or coincide with the …

Why do we gesture when we speak? The Cognitive Psychology of Speech-Related Gesture
offers answers to this question while introducing readers to the huge interdisciplinary field of …

The article focuses on studies of sign language, a specialized kind of nonverbal expression
and one intended to function as a language with defined grammar and vocabulary. It …

We present a system that automatically generates deictic gestures for animated pedagogical
agents (APAs). The system takes audio and text as input, which define what the APA has to …