Pantomime, gesture in absence of speech, has no conventional meaning. Nevertheless,
individuals seem to be able to produce pantomimes and derive meaning from pantomimes …

Pantomimes are gestures that occur in absence of speech, which have no conventional
meaning. Since their meaning is not conventionalized, the question arises as to what extent …

There is a long-standing assumption that gestural forms are geared by a set of modes of
representation (acting, representing, drawing, moulding) with each technique expressing …

Pantomime production is commonly interpreted as reflecting tool-use-related cognitive
processes. Yet, in everyday life, pantomime deserves a communication function and the …

Several lines of research within developmental psychology, experimental semiotics and
language origins studies have recently converged in their interest in pantomime as a system …

The present paper deals with the question of how people recognize tool-use/transitive
actions performed by others. The direct-matching hypothesis assumes that transitive …

Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in behavioral and neuroimaging studies on
the processing of symbolic communicative gestures, such as pantomimes and emblems, but …

Pantomime refers to iconic gesturing that is done for communicative purposes in the
absence of speech. Gestural theories of the origins of language claim that a stage of …

In face-to-face communication, speakers typically integrate information acquired through
different sources, including what they see and what they know, into their communicative …

Due to the robust iconic potential of visual representations, gestural, and pantomimic
hypotheses of language origins are well suited to provide solutions to the bootstrapping …