New publication alert 📣our hands know how to pass information to learners in similar ways across cultures (Italian and Dutch) www.mpi.nl/news/italian...
Showing how: Adults across cultures use similar representational gestural strategies in demonstrations for children. New paper by Emanuela Campisi, @anitaslonimska.bsky.social & @asliozyurek.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1098/rsos.251813
Abstract. Human communication often involves spontaneous teaching, a capacity central to cultural evolution, in which representational gestures (e.g. showi
Very happy to see this publication out by our great student @shoakamine.bsky.social . This will advance the way we measure whether two mimicing behavior is same or not applied Kinematic measures applied to gesture and validated by hand coding and big data 👏👏👏
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New paper out !! Full article: Adults mark the communicative relevance of their gestures more for children than for other adults
📣📣Another great paper from our Department !! We report gestures and how they relate to speech change into adulthood when expressing space- these give insights about development of relations between spatial cognition and language and how they align over time 👇🏼👇🏼
Adults mark the communicative relevance of their gestures more for children than for other adult. Final version by @anitaslonimska.bsky.social , @asliozyurek.bsky.social & Emanuela Campisi
doi.org/10.1080/0163853X.2026.2618464
