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Beyond words: the importance of gesture to researchers and learnersS Goldin-Meadow
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Child Dev 71:231-9. 2000..As a result, the next decade may well offer evidence of gesture's dual potential as an illuminating tool for researchers and as a facilitator of cognitive growth for learners themselves...
Spontaneous sign systems created by deaf children in two culturesS Goldin-Meadow
University of Chicago, Department of Psychology, Illinois 60637, USA
Nature 391:279-81. 1998..These striking similarities offer critical empirical input towards resolving the ongoing debate about the 'innateness' of language in human infants...
The cultural bounds of maternal accommodation: how Chinese and American mothers communicate with deaf and hearing childrenS Goldin-Meadow
University of Chicago, Department of Psychology, 5730 South Woodlawn Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Psychol Sci 11:307-14. 2000..These findings provide the first cross-cultural demonstration that children are, first and foremost, inculcated into their cultures and, only within that framework, then treated as special cases...
Explaining math: gesturing lightens the loadS Goldin-Meadow
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Psychol Sci 12:516-22. 2001..It is widely accepted that gesturing reflects a speaker's cognitive state, but our observations suggest that, by reducing cognitive load, gesturing may also play a role in shaping that state...
Nouns and verbs in a self-styled gesture system: what's in a name?S Goldin-Meadow
University of Chicago, Department of Psychology, IL 60637
Cogn Psychol 27:259-319. 1994..A distinction between nouns and verbs thus appears to be sufficiently fundamental to human language that it can be reinvented by a child who does not have access to a culturally shared linguistic system...
What's communication got to do with it? Gesture in children blind from birthJ M Iverson
Department of Psychology, University of Chicago, Illinois 60637, USA
Dev Psychol 33:453-67. 1997..Results suggest that gesture may serve a function for the speaker that is independent of its impact on the listener...
Gesture changes thought by grounding it in actionS L Beilock
Department of Psychology, The University of Chicago, 5848 S University Ave, Chicago, IL 60637, USA
Psychol Sci 21:1605-10. 2010..Gesturing grounds people's mental representations in action. When gestures are no longer compatible with the action constraints of a task, problem solving suffers...
Gesture-speech mismatch and mechanisms of learning: what the hands reveal about a child's state of mindM W Alibali
University of Chicago, IL 60637
Cogn Psychol 25:468-523. 1993....
