Foundations of Embodied Learning advances learning, instruction, and the design of
educational technologies by rethinking the learner as an integrated system of mind, body …

How does sign language compare with gesture, on the one hand, and spoken language on
the other? Sign was once viewed as nothing more than a system of pictorial gestures without …

A rising epistemological paradigm in the cognitive sciences—embodied cognition—has
been stimulating innovative approaches, among educational researchers, to the design and …

Psychology has made, and continues to make, a significant contribution to the discipline
area of education. Since one of the main aims of education concerns student learning …

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 …

Gestures, widely accepted as a humans' natural mode of interaction with their surroundings,
have been considered for use in human-computer based interfaces since the early 1980s …

Gestures are often taken as evidence that the body is involved in thinking and speaking
about the ideas expressed in those gestures. In this article, we present evidence drawn from …

Gestures are seemingly trivial, but actually they are interesting and crucial components of
language. By studying them, in conjunction with language (not in isolation), we gain new …

The later sections of the monograph have three goals:(a) to abstract and clarify the
theoretical framework into a form suitable for application to knowledge systems other than …

When speakers talk, they gesture. The goal of this review is to investigate the contribution
that these gestures make to how we communicate and think. Gesture can play a role in …