Child development is marked by profound changes in experience. Toddlers gain knowledge
about the surrounding world by exploring their environment using different perceptual …

Objective: Here we investigate the involvement of space, movement and nonmanual
articulators throughout the evolution of a newborn sign language. We aimed to assess how …

The purpose of this literature and research review is to understand better the use of sign
language and the importance of gestures to children in young early childhood. Children …

Infants are endowed with a proclivity to acquire language, whether it is presented in the
auditory or visual modality. Moreover, in the first months of life, listening to language …

Objective: Here we investigate the involvement of space, movement and nonmanual
articulators throughout the evolution of a newborn sign language. We aimed to assess how …

Abstract Language and categorization are intrinsically linked. Infants must be able to notice
similarities across objects and build categories defined by those similarities in order to …

Expressing Left-Right relations is challenging for speaking-children. Yet, this challenge was
absent for signing-children, possibly due to iconicity in the visual-spatial modality of …

Communication is commonly viewed as connecting people through conscious symbolic
processes. Infants have an immature communication toolbox, raising the question of how …

Children typically communicate with their caregivers in multimodal environments and
interact through a variety of modalities, including eye gaze, facial expressions and hand …

Iconicity is prevalent in gesture and in sign languages, yet the degree to which children
recognize and leverage iconicity for early language learning is unclear. In Experiment 1 of …