Gestures during speaking are typically understood in a representational framework: they
represent absent or distal states of affairs by means of pointing, resemblance, or symbolic …

The first gestures that children produce intentionally to communicate with others, make
sense of the world around them, and control their behavior are ostensive gestures of …

Fostering communicative skills in young children is essential for their holistic development.
Book-reading activities have been shown to be a valuable tool for supporting communicative …

Infants' early interactions with adults and everyday objects are key to socio-communicative
development, but their emergence and development are still under debate. Aiming at …

We present a systematic and qualitative review of academic literature on early conceptual
development (0–24 months of age), with an emphasis on methodological aspects. The final …

Within developmental psychology, pointing gestures have received a great deal of attention,
while ostensive gestures have been overlooked in terms of their emergence and …

In Doctor Brodie's Report, the Argentinian writer and literature Nobel Prize winner, Jorge
Luis Borges, talks about the Yahoos, a very remote tribe situated in a faraway place. He says …

During development we transition from coregulation (where regulatory processes are
shared between child and caregiver) to self‐regulation. Most early coregulatory interactions …

The two first years of life are critical in the development of Executive Functions (EF).
However, very little is known about their early manifestations, how they develop, how they …

Research on gesture development has mostly focused on home environments. Little is
known about early communicative development in other relevant contexts, such as early …