Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Gestural Types: Forms and Functions
- Part II Ways of Approaching Gesture Analysis
- Part III Gestures and Language
- Part IV Gestures in Relation to Cognition
- 18 The Growth Point
- 19 Gestures in Cognition: Actions that Bridge the Mind and the World
- 20 The Neuroscience of Gesture Production
- 21 Gesture in Learning and Education
- Part V Gestures in Relation to Interaction
- Index
- References
19 - Gestures in Cognition: Actions that Bridge the Mind and the World
from Part IV - Gestures in Relation to Cognition
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 May 2024
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Book contents
- The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies
- Cambridge Handbooks in Language and Linguistics
- The Cambridge Handbook of Gesture Studies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Gestural Types: Forms and Functions
- Part II Ways of Approaching Gesture Analysis
- Part III Gestures and Language
- Part IV Gestures in Relation to Cognition
- 18 The Growth Point
- 19 Gestures in Cognition: Actions that Bridge the Mind and the World
- 20 The Neuroscience of Gesture Production
- 21 Gesture in Learning and Education
- Part V Gestures in Relation to Interaction
- Index
- References
Summary
First, how does the human cognitive system give rise to gestures? A growing body of literature suggests that gestures are based in people’s perceptual and physical experience of the world. Second, do gestures influence how people take in information from the world? Research suggests that producing gestures modifies producers’ experience of the world in specific ways. Third, does externalizing information in gestures affect cognitive processing? There is evidence that expressing spatial and motoric information in gestures has consequences for thinking, including for memory and problem solving. Fourth, how do gestures influence other people’s cognitive processing? Research indicates that gestures can highlight certain forms of information for others’ thinking, thus engaging social mechanisms that influence cognitive processing. Gestures are closely tied to action, and they reveal how producers schematize information in the objects, tasks, events, and situations that they gesture about. In brief, gestures play an integral role in cognition, both for gesture producers and for gesture recipients, because they are actions of the body that bridge the mind and the world.
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