This finding flies in the face of abundant past research demonstrating that gesture contributes to comprehension of the accompanying speech (see Hostetter, 2011), and that teachers' gestures are beneficial for students' learning (e.g., Church et al., 2004; Cook et al., 2013).
The traditional view of a predominant inferior parietal representation of gestures has been recently challenged by neuroimaging studies demonstrating that gesture production and discrimination may critically depend on inferior frontal lobe function.
Studies such as these demonstrate that gesture may have a unique role for supporting spatial thinking that goes beyond drawing a learner's attention to spatial information or making spatial information more salient.
When you're playing someone of the opposite gender in a scene, do you demonstrate this by making stereotypical, unnecessary comments or gestures?
Subjects either had to use a simple tool, solve a simple but not obvious problem by observing a demonstrated solution, gesture to the experimenter or follow the experimenter's gaze direction.
In result, Vince immediately recognizes the demonstrated wave1 gesture right after the interlocutor has started to move, and the following observations confirm this expectation.
Since the demonstrated gesture starts similarly to the known circle gesture, Vince at first "thinks" that the interlocutor is going to draw a circle.
To demonstrate this connection, Mead begins by articulating what he learned about the gesture from Wundt.
Dreyer's film, which combines minimal sets and costuming with an exuberant use of close ups, brilliantly demonstrated that facial gesture, which humans can read from infancy, can be an incredibly powerful and nuanced language for storytelling.
In the former case, at the end of the performance, the motor program hypothesis of wave2 attains stronger motor resonance because of a greater similarity to the starting movement of the demonstrated gesture.
