Despite this, in a November 23 interview with CNN, de Gucht seemed to soften this line and called for normalization without demanding prior gestures from Cuba.
Unless you lay some prior groundwork, that gesture may seem almost as patronizing as an impatient tone of voice – and probably as likely to backfire.
Though interesting, such gestures do not necessarily go beyond prior observations about gestures representing simple relational structures, such as those described previously in the domain of time.
Photograph: Jose Sena Goulao/EPA 9.57pm GMT Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff gestures prior to the arrival of New Zealand's Prime Minister John Key at the Planalto Palace in Brasilia.
LAKELAND, Fla .— The small gesture Mark Prior made coming off the mound Monday looked familiar to the Yankees pitching coach Larry Rothschild, who knows Prior well from their days with the Chicago Cubs.
As predicted, only small or zero correlations of metaphor-congruent gestures with prior experience or cognitive ability could be found.
Subjects were shown the oddball target, (another hand gesture and sound) prior to scanning and told to press the button when they saw/heard the target.
Prior research has shown that gestures that co-occur with speech can improve understanding of abstract concepts by embodying the underlying meaning of those concepts, thereby making them more accessible to the listener.
"Our results show that elephants spontaneously attend to and correctly interpret human... gestures without extensive prior learning opportunities -- the only nonhuman species so far to show this ability," wrote Byrne and his graduate student coauthor, Anna Smet.
However, if the Broca's area homologue was involved in both the production of gestures and vocal signals prior to the split between modern humans and chimpanzees, then a strictly gestural origin for human language would not be supported.
Hand gestures recognition requires the prior determination of the hand position through detection and tracking.
