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 …

As we speak, we use not only the arbitrary form–meaning mappings of the speech channel
but also motivated form–meaning correspondences, ie iconic gestures that accompany …

Emoji (small coloured images encoded like text) went from unavailable outside Japan in
2010 to active use by 92% of the world's online population in 2016. Their sharp rise is often …

A great deal of attention has recently been paid to gesture and its effects on thinking and
learning. It is well established that the hand movements that accompany speech are an …

Teaching a new concept through gestures—hand movements that accompany speech—
facilitates learning above‐and‐beyond instruction through speech alone (eg, Singer & …

Humans communicate using language, but they also communicate using gesture–
spontaneous movements of the hands and body that universally accompany speech …

When teachers gesture during instruction, children retain and generalize what they are
taught (Goldin-Meadow, 2014). But why does gesture have such a powerful effect on …

In face-to-face conversation, recipients might use the bodily movements of the speaker (eg
gestures) to facilitate language processing. It has been suggested that one way through …

Social neuroscience combines tools and perspectives from social psychology and
neuroscience to understand how people interact with their social world. Here we discuss a …

In recent decades, educators and policymakers in the United States have increased their
focus on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) learning …