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Why people gesture when they speak

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  • Jana M. Iverson

    (Indiana University)

  • Susan Goldin-Meadow

    (University of Chicago)

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People use gestures when they talk, but is this behaviour learned from watching others move their hands when talking? Individuals who are blind from birth never see such gestures and so have no model for gesturing. But here we show that congenitally blind speakers gesture despite their lack of a visual model, even when they speak to a blind listener. Gestures therefore require neither a model nor an observant partner.

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  • Jana M. Iverson & Susan Goldin-Meadow, 1998. "Why people gesture when they speak," Nature, Nature, vol. 396(6708), pages 228-228, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:396:y:1998:i:6708:d:10.1038_24300
    DOI: 10.1038/24300
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    1. Satoshi Kawase, 2014. "Importance of Communication Cues in Music Performance according to Performers and Audience," International Journal of Psychological Studies, Canadian Center of Science and Education, vol. 6(2), pages 1-49, June.
    2. Netto, Vinicius M. & Meirelles, João Vitor & Ribeiro, Fabiano L., 2017. "Social Interaction and the City: The Effect of Space on the Reduction of Entropy," SocArXiv kdfkt, Center for Open Science.
    3. Vinicius M. Netto & Joao Meirelles & Fabiano L. Ribeiro, 2017. "Social Interaction and the City: The Effect of Space on the Reduction of Entropy," Complexity, Hindawi, vol. 2017, pages 1-16, August.

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