Do hand gestures play a role in spatial cognition? This paper reviews literature addressing
the roles of gestures in (1) expressing spatial information,(2) communicating about spatial …

A novel theoretical framework for an embodied, non-representational approach to language
that extends and deepens enactive theory, bridging the gap between sensorimotor skills and …

Once signed languages are recognized as natural human languages, a world of exploration
opens up. Signed languages provide a powerful tool for investigating the nature of human …

Depictive expressions of thought predate written language by thousands of years. They
have evolved in communities through a kind of informal user testing that has refined them …

How do we understand what others are trying to say? The answer cannot be found in
language alone. Words are linked to hand gestures and other visible phenomena to create …

On average, men outperform women on mental rotation tasks. Even boys as young as 4 1/2
perform better than girls on simplified spatial transformation tasks. The goal of our study was …

The present study concerns individual differences in gesture production. We used
correlational and multiple regression analyses to examine the relationship between …

Visuospatial reasoning is not simply a matter of running to retrieve a fly ball or wending a
way through a crowd or plotting a path to a destination or stacking suitcases in a car trunk. It …

What type of mental representation underlies the gestures that accompany speech? We
used a dual-task paradigm to compare the demands gesturing makes on visuospatial and …

We propose that an important aspect of human-robot interaction is perspective-taking. We
show how perspective-taking occurs in a naturalistic environment (astronauts working on a …