Foundations of Embodied Learning advances learning, instruction, and the design of
educational technologies by rethinking the learner as an integrated system of mind, body …

Research on learning and education is increasingly influenced by theories of embodied
cognition. Several embodiment-based interventions have been empirically investigated …

This article explores relevant applications of educational theory for the design of immersive
virtual reality (VR). Two unique attributes associated with VR position the technology to …

When speakers talk, they gesture. The goal of this review is to investigate the contribution
that these gestures make to how we communicate and think. Gesture can play a role in …

When people talk, they gesture. Gesture is a fundamental component of language that
contributes meaningful and unique information to a spoken message and reflects the …

In development, children often use gesture to communicate before they use words. The
question is whether these gestures merely precede language development or are …

Since Dr. Brizendine wrote The Female Brain ten years ago, the response has been
overwhelming. This New York Times bestseller has been translated into more than thirty …

How does gesturing help children learn? Gesturing might encourage children to extract
meaning implicit in their hand movements. If so, children should be sensitive to the particular …

The gestures children spontaneously produce when explaining a task predict whether they
will subsequently learn that task. Why? Gesture might simply reflect a child's readiness to …

Children from low–socioeconomic status (SES) families, on average, arrive at school with
smaller vocabularies than children from high-SES families. In an effort to identify precursors …