ArticleNature reviews psychology2023
Gesture links language and cognition for spoken and signed languages.
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- Extending the Architecture of Language From a Multimodal Perspective.Topics in cognitive science · 2025Article
- Multisensory Integration of Naturalistic Speech and Gestures in Autistic Adults.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2025Article
- Intact speech-gesture integration in narrative recall by adults with moderate-severe traumatic brain injury.Neuropsychologia · 2023Article
- Ten things you should know about sign languages.Current directions in psychological science · 2023Article
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Abstract
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 and to generate representations that are useful for thinking. Gesture and language can be distinguished by distinct underlying modes of thinking and by gradations of conventionalization and the transparency of form-meaning relations. However, it is not always possible or useful to draw a sharp line between gesture and language. In this Review, we first describe how speakers and signers produce facial, manual, and body gestures. Then, we describe how representational gesture encodes information, considering the constraints from properties of languages, and how speakers and signers orchestrate language and gesture. Next, we review how gesture production shapes thinking for both signers and speakers, and consider gesture comprehension and how the meaning of gestures is integrated with language. We conclude with suggestions for further exploration of gesture as a critical expression of the human mind.
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