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Kin Cognition and Communication: What Talking, Gesturing, and Drawing About Family Can Tell us About the Way We Think About This Core Social Structure

Simon Devylder, Jennifer Hinnell, Joost Weier, Linea Brink Andersen, more

When people talk about kinship systems, they often use co‐speech gestures and other representations to elaborate. This paper investigates such polysemiotic (spoken, gestured, and drawn) descriptions of kinship relations, to see if they display recurring patterns of conventionalization that capture specific social structures. We present an exploratory hypothesis‐generating study of descriptions produced...

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Your body tells how you engage in collaboration: Machine‐detected body movements as indicators of engagement in collaborative math knowledge building

Hanall Sung, Mitchell J. Nathan

British Journal of Educational Technology > 55 > 5 > 1950 - 1973

Collaborative learning, driven by knowledge co‐construction and meaning negotiation, is a pivotal aspect of educational contexts. While gesture's importance in conveying shared meaning is recognized, its role in collaborative group settings remains understudied. This gap hinders accurate and equitable assessment and instruction, particularly for linguistically diverse students. Advancements in multimodal...

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76‐3: Invited Paper: Integration of Sensing Technologies into MicroLED Displays

I. Knausz, N. Rivers, E. Radauscher, A. Pearson, more

SID Symposium Digest of Technical Papers > 55 > 1 > 1049 - 1052

MicroIC enables display attributes unattainable from polycrystalline thin‐film transistors, and the complimentary metal‐oxide semiconductor (CMOS) microICs support a wide range of applications beyond driving pixels. Integrating sensors within displays can add value to products, reduce costs and improve performance versus conventional solutions. As evidenced by touch and display integration in mobile...

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Learners’ Spontaneous Gesture Before a Math Lesson Predicts the Efficacy of Seeing Versus Doing Gesture During the Lesson

Eliza L. Congdon, Elizabeth M. Wakefield, Miriam A. Novack, Naureen Hemani‐Lopez, more

Cognitive Science > 48 > 7 > n/a - n/a

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, and retain what they have learned. But does it matter who is doing the gesturing? We know that producing gesture leads to better comprehension of a message than watching someone else produce gesture. But we do not know how producing...

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A non‐verbal teaching behaviour analysis for improving pointing out gestures: The case of asynchronous video lecture analysis using deep learning

Ho Young Yoon, Seokmin Kang, Sungyeun Kim

Journal of Computer Assisted Learning > 40 > 3 > 1006 - 1018

Background Research into enhancing the effectiveness of information delivery in asynchronous video lectures remains sparse. This study analyzes the nonverbal teaching behaviours in asynchronous online videos, drawing comparisons between pre‐service and in‐service teachers (ITs). Objectives This research primarily aims to juxtapose the nonverbal teaching behaviours, such as arm extensions and body...

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Language and gesture neural correlates: A meta‐analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies

Luisa Cacciante, Giorgia Pregnolato, Silvia Salvalaggio, Sara Federico, more

International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders > 59 > 3 > 902 - 912

Background Humans often use co‐speech gestures to promote effective communication. Attention has been paid to the cortical areas engaged in the processing of co‐speech gestures. Aims To investigate the neural network underpinned in the processing of co‐speech gestures and to observe whether there is a relationship between areas involved in language and gesture processing. Methods & Procedures...

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Piloting building early sentences therapy for pre‐school children with low language abilities: An examination of efficacy and the role of sign as an active ingredient

Anastasia Trebacz, Cristina McKean, Helen Stringer, Sean Pert

International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders > 59 > 3 > 1128 - 1151

Background Early intervention is recommended for pre‐school children with low language. However, few robustly evaluated language interventions for young children exist. Furthermore, in many interventions the theoretical underpinnings are underspecified and the ‘active ingredients’ of the interventions not tested. This paper presents a quasi‐experimental study to test the efficacy and examine the...

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Embodying Similarity and Difference: The Effect of Listing and Contrasting Gestures During U.S. Political Speech

Icy (Yunyi) Zhang, Tina Izad, Erica A. Cartmill

Cognitive Science > 48 > 3 > n/a - n/a

Public speakers like politicians carefully craft their words to maximize the clarity, impact, and persuasiveness of their messages. However, these messages can be shaped by more than words. Gestures play an important role in how spoken arguments are perceived, conceptualized, and remembered by audiences. Studies of political speech have explored the ways spoken arguments are used to persuade audiences...

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Temporal Gestures in Different Temporal Perspectives

Emir Akbuğa, Tilbe Göksun

Cognitive Science > 48 > 3 > n/a - n/a

Temporal perspectives allow us to place ourselves and temporal events on a timeline, making it easier to conceptualize time. This study investigates how we take different temporal perspectives in our temporal gestures. We asked participants (n = 36) to retell temporal scenarios written in the Moving‐Ego, Moving‐Time, and Time‐Reference‐Point perspectives in spontaneous and encouraged gesture conditions...

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How Prior Knowledge, Gesture Instruction, and Interference After Instruction Interact to Influence Learning of Mathematical Equivalence

Susan Wagner Cook, Elle M. D. Wernette, Madison Valentine, Mary Aldugom, more

Cognitive Science > 48 > 2 > n/a - n/a

Although children learn more when teachers gesture, it is not clear how gesture supports learning. Here, we sought to investigate the nature of the memory processes that underlie the observed benefits of gesture on lasting learning. We hypothesized that instruction with gesture might create memory representations that are particularly resistant to interference. We investigated this possibility in...

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Putting it Together, Together

Chen Zheng, Barbara Tversky

Cognitive Science > 48 > 2 > n/a - n/a

People are not as fast or as strong as many other creatures that evolved around us. What gives us an evolutionary advantage is working together to achieve common aims. Coordinating joint action begins at a tender age with such cooperative activities as alternating babbling and clapping games. Adult joint activities are far more complex and use multiple means of coordination. Joint action has attracted...

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Hand Gestures Have Predictive Potential During Conversation: An Investigation of the Timing of Gestures in Relation to Speech

Marlijn ter Bekke, Linda Drijvers, Judith Holler

Cognitive Science > 48 > 1 > n/a - n/a

During face‐to‐face conversation, transitions between speaker turns are incredibly fast. These fast turn exchanges seem to involve next speakers predicting upcoming semantic information, such that next turn planning can begin before a current turn is complete. Given that face‐to‐face conversation also involves the use of communicative bodily signals, an important question is how bodily signals such...

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Leadership and expressivity: The interplay of speech and gesture in Andrzej Duda’s anti-war rhetoric

Magdalena Szczyrbak, Anna Tereszkiewicz, Valentyna Ushchyna

Res Rhetorica > 2024 > 11 > 2 > 131-151

The paper discusses the relationship between leadership and expressivity as exemplified by the Polish President's address to the Ukrainian Parliament delivered on 22 May 2022. The study draws on existing understandings of expressivity and discursive leadership as well as previous studies on gesture in political rhetoric. Co-speech gestures are discussed as an interactional resource linked to emotion...

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Gestural Choreographies: Moving Between Bodies

Margaret Ames

Didaskalia. Gazeta Teatralna > 2024 > 179 > 165-187

Choreography grounded in gesture by learning disabled dancers transmits learning disability cultures and experiences. Performers transform concepts and practices of mainstream dance and work towards an expanded aesthetics. This article considers the work of Welsh group Cyrff Ystwyth, a company of people with various capacities who follow the lead of choreographers with learning disability. My methodology...

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Which Aspects of Visual Motivation Aid the Implicit Learning of Signs at First Exposure?

Julia Hofweber, Lizzy Aumônier, Vikki Janke, Marianne Gullberg, more

Language Learning > 73 > S1 > 33 - 63

We investigated whether sign‐naïve learners can infer and learn the meaning of signs after minimal exposure to continuous, naturalistic input in the form of a weather forecast in Swedish Sign Language. Participants were L1‐English adults. Two experimental groups watched the forecast once (n = 40) or twice (n = 42); a control group did not (n = 42). Participants were then asked to assign meaning to...

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A protocol for a randomized‐controlled trial to investigate the effect of infant sign training on the speech–language development in young children born with cleft palate

Mira De Ryck, Kristiane Van Lierde, Cassandra Alighieri, Greet Hens, more

International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders > 58 > 6 > 2212 - 2221

Background Children born with a cleft palate with or without cleft lip (CP ± L) are known to be at risk for speech–language disorders that impact educational and social–emotional growth. It is hypothesized that speech–language intervention delivered before the age of 3 years could decrease the impact of CP ± L on speech–language development. Infant sign training in combination with verbal input expands...

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Philosophy, writing, and liberation

Richard Shusterman

Metaphilosophy > 54 > 4 > 415 - 425

In responding to the three creative interpretive discussions in the symposium on my book Philosophy and the Art of Writing, this paper explores the different styles of philosophical discourse and their role in the practice of philosophy as a way of life that extends beyond the discursive and that combines self‐cultivation with care for others in the ethical‐aesthetic pursuit of living beauty. In advocating...

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The skillful means and meanings of philosophy: Attention and immersion in the philosophical art of writing

Charles Johnson

Metaphilosophy > 54 > 4 > 403 - 414

This response to Richard Shusterman's Philosophy and the Art of Writing focuses on his concern that philosophy is, first and foremost, a way of life, illustrated in the West by the Socratic ideal of the philosopher and in the East by the example of the scholar‐artist‐gentleman. This paper examines the process of Buddhist meditation and the process of creating novels, supplementing the authors Shusterman...

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Hearts in their hands—Physicians’ gestures embodying shared professional knowledge around the world

Benjamin Quasinowski, Solmaz Assa, Cadja Bachmann, Wei Chen, more

Sociology of Health & Illness > 45 > 5 > 1101 - 1122

The biomedical approach to medical knowledge is widely accepted around the world. This article considers whether the incorporated aspects of physician‐patient interaction have become similarly common across the globe by comparing the gestures that physicians use in their interactions with patients. Up to this point, there has been little research on physicians’ use of gestures in health‐care settings...

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Young children interpret number gestures differently than nonsymbolic sets

Dominic J. Gibson, Talia Berkowitz, Jacob Butts, Susan Goldin‐Meadow, more

Developmental Science > 26 > 3 > n/a - n/a

Researchers have long been interested in the origins of humans’ understanding of symbolic number, focusing primarily on how children learn the meanings of number words (e.g., “one”, “two”, etc.). However, recent evidence indicates that children learn the meanings of number gestures before learning number words. In the present set of experiments, we ask whether children's early knowledge of number...

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Kin Cognition and Communication: What Talking, Gesturing, and Drawing About Family Can Tell us About the Way We Think About This Core Social Structure

Your body tells how you engage in collaboration: Machine‐detected body movements as indicators of engagement in collaborative math knowledge building

76‐3: Invited Paper: Integration of Sensing Technologies into MicroLED Displays

Learners’ Spontaneous Gesture Before a Math Lesson Predicts the Efficacy of Seeing Versus Doing Gesture During the Lesson

A non‐verbal teaching behaviour analysis for improving pointing out gestures: The case of asynchronous video lecture analysis using deep learning

Language and gesture neural correlates: A meta‐analysis of functional magnetic resonance imaging studies

Piloting building early sentences therapy for pre‐school children with low language abilities: An examination of efficacy and the role of sign as an active ingredient

Embodying Similarity and Difference: The Effect of Listing and Contrasting Gestures During U.S. Political Speech

Temporal Gestures in Different Temporal Perspectives

How Prior Knowledge, Gesture Instruction, and Interference After Instruction Interact to Influence Learning of Mathematical Equivalence

Putting it Together, Together

Hand Gestures Have Predictive Potential During Conversation: An Investigation of the Timing of Gestures in Relation to Speech

Leadership and expressivity: The interplay of speech and gesture in Andrzej Duda’s anti-war rhetoric

Gestural Choreographies: Moving Between Bodies

Which Aspects of Visual Motivation Aid the Implicit Learning of Signs at First Exposure?

A protocol for a randomized‐controlled trial to investigate the effect of infant sign training on the speech–language development in young children born with cleft palate

Philosophy, writing, and liberation

The skillful means and meanings of philosophy: Attention and immersion in the philosophical art of writing

Hearts in their hands—Physicians’ gestures embodying shared professional knowledge around the world

Young children interpret number gestures differently than nonsymbolic sets

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