Abstract The Gesture as Simulated Action (GSA) framework was proposed to explain how
gestures arise from embodied simulations of the motor and perceptual states that occur …

Recent research has shown that people's actions can influence how they think. A separate
body of research has shown that the gestures people produce when they speak can also …

A key challenge for entrepreneurs is to convince investors of their business ideas via a pitch.
While scholars have started to explore how entrepreneurs convey their passion and …

Gestures are often taken as evidence that the body is involved in thinking and speaking
about the ideas expressed in those gestures. In this article, we present evidence drawn from …

People spontaneously produce gestures during speaking and thinking. The authors focus
here on gestures that depict or indicate information related to the contents of concurrent …

Fundamental to all human languages is an unlimited expressive capacity and creative
flexibility that allow speakers to rapidly generate novel and complex utterances. In turn …

When people talk, they gesture. We show that gesture introduces action information into
speakers' mental representations, which, in turn, affect subsequent performance. In …

The movements we make with our hands both reflect our mental processes and help to
shape them. Our actions and gestures can affect our mental representations of actions and …

A great deal of attention has recently been paid to gesture and its effects on thinking and
learning. It is well established that the hand movements that accompany speech are an …

This review aims at exploring the role of the body and its sensorimotor processes in memory.
Recent theories have suggested that memories can profitably be seen as mental simulations …