My dad’s side of our family is nearly 100 percent Italian. As a result, I grew up immersed in Italian-American traditions, including large family gatherings with a lot of food and laughter, ...

Across cultures, people literally point to the future in different directions. Our hands reveal how language, writing, and ...

Using hand gestures may be important for more than just making a point; they could help children to learn. In research published in the journal Developmental Psychology, preschoolers and ...

Inclining the head and using hand gestures to communicate more complex meanings The study involved 45 typically developing children and 34 children with developmental language disorders between the ...

Hand movements are often treated as a nervous tic to be suppressed, but a growing body of research suggests they are one of the most powerful tools a speaker has. Across lab experiments, large-scale ...

Years ago my father taught me a concept I think about every day. He taught me about using common gestures to instruct my heart. When someone walks into a room, he reasoned, you should stand up. You ...

In face-to-face conversations, speakers use hand movements to signal meaning. But do listeners actually use these gestures to predict what someone might say next? In a study using virtual avatars, ...

The article detailing the results of the study, published as open access in the Journal of Communication Disorders, explains that prosody alone facilitates the understanding of simpler meanings, such ...