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 …

Speakers use spontaneous hand gestures as they speak and think. These gestures serve
many functions for speakers who produce them as well as for listeners who observe them …

Teaching and learning involve more than just language. The teachers' use of gestures, the
classroom spaces they occupy and the movements they make, as well as the tools they use …

Hand gestures facilitate memory processes, both for newly learned material and for material
that is already understood. Gestures facilitate working memory in the moment in which they …

Spontaneous co-speech hand gestures provide a visuospatial representation of what is
being communicated in spoken language. Although it is clear that gestures emerge from …

Speakers design communication for their audience, providing more information in both
speech and gesture when their listener is naïve to the topic. We test whether the …

In three experiments, we investigated explicit and implicit knowledge about the location of
letters on the QWERTY keyboard in young students, and the mechanisms involved …

Enactment is an encoding strategy in which performing an action related to a target item
enhances memory for that word, relative to verbal encoding. Precisely how this motor activity …

Co‐speech hand gesture facilitates learning and memory, yet the cognitive and neural
mechanisms supporting this remain unclear. One possibility is that motor information in …

Parkinson's disease (PD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders, and is
associated with prominent motor deficits. However, neurocognitive impairment is also a …