Gesture, sign, and language: The coming of age of sign language and gesture studies

S Goldin-Meadow, D Brentari - Behavioral and brain sciences, 2017 - cambridge.org
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 …

Gesture as simulated action: Revisiting the framework

AB Hostetter, MW Alibali - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2019 - Springer
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 …

Gesture use and processing: A review on individual differences in cognitive resources

D Özer, T Göksun - Frontiers in Psychology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Speakers use spontaneous hand gestures as they speak and think. These gestures serve
many functions for speakers who produce them as well as for listeners who observe them …

Observing storytellers who use rhythmic beat gestures improves children's narrative discourse performance.

I Vilà-Giménez, A Igualada, P Prieto - Developmental Psychology, 2019 - psycnet.apa.org
Iconic and pointing gestures are important precursors of children's early language and
cognitive development. While beat gestures seem to have positive effects on the recall of …

[BOOK][B] The unobtrusive relational analyst: Explorations in psychoanalytic companioning

R Grossmark - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Psychoanalysts increasingly find themselves working with patients and states that are not
amenable to verbal and dialogic engagement. Such patients are challenging for a …

Beat gestures help preschoolers recall and comprehend discourse information

J Llanes-Coromina, I Vilà-Giménez, O Kushch… - Journal of Experimental …, 2018 - Elsevier
Although the positive effects of iconic gestures on word recall and comprehension by
children have been clearly established, less is known about the benefits of beat gestures …

Encouraging kids to beat: Children's beat gesture production boosts their narrative performance

I Vilà‐Giménez, P Prieto - Developmental Science, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Gesture is an integral part of language development. While recent evidence shows that
observing a speaker who is simultaneously producing beat gestures helps preschoolers …

The value of non-referential gestures: a systematic review of their cognitive and linguistic effects in children's language development

I Vila-Gimenez, P Prieto - Children, 2021 - mdpi.com
Speakers produce both referential gestures, which depict properties of a referent, and non-
referential gestures, which lack semantic content. While a large number of studies have …

Gesture like a kitten and you won't forget your tale: Drama-based, embodied story time supports preschoolers' narrative skills

KA Bernstein, L van Huisstede, SC Marley… - Early Childhood …, 2024 - Elsevier
Oral narrative comprehension is an important precursor to reading comprehension.
Supporting preschool students in building strong oral narrative comprehension skills …

Children use non-referential gestures in narrative speech to mark discourse elements which update common ground

PL Rohrer, J Florit-Pons, I Vilà-Giménez… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
While recent studies have claimed that non-referential gestures (ie, gestures that do not
visually represent any semantic content in speech) are used to mark discourse-new and/or …