Human communication combines language with gesture. Gesture contributes to the
uniquely human ability to communicate about an infinite number of ideas in an efficient way …

The gestures we produce serve a variety of functions—they affect our communication, guide
our attention and help us think and change the way we think. Gestures can consequently …

Gestures—hand movements that accompany speech and express ideas—can help children
learn how to solve problems, flexibly generalize learning to novel problem‐solving contexts …

Producing gesture can be a powerful tool for facilitating learning. This effect has been
replicated across a variety of academic domains, including algebra, chemistry, geometry …

Producing content‐related gestures has been found to impact students' learning, whether
such gestures are spontaneously generated by the learner in the course of problem‐solving …

Action and perception interact in complex ways to shape how we learn. In the context of
language acquisition, for example, hand gestures can facilitate learning novel sound-to …

Why do people gesture when they speak? According to one influential proposal, the Lexical
Retrieval Hypothesis (LRH), gestures serve a cognitive function in speakers' minds by …

Social robots are receiving an ever-increasing interest in popular media and scientific
literature. Yet, empirical evaluation of the educational use of social robots remains limited. In …

Introduction Hand gestures and actions-with-objects (hereafter 'actions') are both forms of
movement that can promote learning. However, the two have unique affordances, which …

This study investigated whether seeing iconic gestures depicting verb referents promotes
two types of generalization. We taught 3‐to 4‐year‐olds novel locomotion verbs. Children …