A study published on 21 May in Child Development shows that the early production of beat gestures with the hands (i.e., gestures normally associated with emphasis that do not represent the semantic ...

New research shows that the early production of beat gestures with the hands (i.e., gestures normally associated with emphasis that do not represent the semantic content of speech) by infants between ...

Gesture and speech constitute complementary channels in human communication, jointly enabling the expression of complex ideas and enhancing cognitive processing. This field explores how spontaneous or ...

And then there are motor gestures, some of the most commonly used gestures of all, which work to reinforce the cadence of what we are saying. As an extreme example, think of someone hitting the top of ...