A study conducted by Duke’s Department of Psychology & Neuroscience shows that how people use their hands while speaking ...

Gesture communication is increasingly recognised as a vital compensatory strategy in aphasia rehabilitation. Aphasia, most commonly arising from stroke-related brain injuries, impairs verbal ...

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Moving hands are not simply expressions of temperament but symbols of language contact, regional identity, and social change.

Hannah VanderHoeven is a Ph.D research student at Colorado State University (CSU) who holds a MS in Computer Science from CSU. As part of iSAT, Hannah works with Dr. Krishnaswamy on automatic gesture ...

The question of the origin of the language is one of the most important and at the same time one of the most difficult to solve. It was formulated in antiquity and has inspired religion and philosophy ...

Why scientists say gestures change minds Researchers who study communication have moved beyond the idea that gestures are mere add-ons to speech, treating them instead as an integrated part of how ...

When we first meet someone, our body speaks before we even say a word. That first gesture—often a handshake, a smile, a nod, or even a simple glance—seems trivial, but it conveys a wealth of ...

Humans commonly use referential gestures that direct the attention of recipients to particular aspects of the environment. Because the recipient of a referential gesture must infer the signaler's ...

New research helps robots combine language and gestures to find objects in cluttered spaces, improving how they understand human intent.