Boing Boing: Gesturing while speaking helps unlock vocab and memory

"'What we think is going on here,' Nicoladis said, 'is that the very fact of moving your hands around helps you recall parts of the story--the gestures help you access memory and language so that you can tell more of the story.'

'Initially, we thought gestures were related to meaning--that they meant something on their own. But now we believe they are more related to language,' she added."

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Cool. As an animator, I find this information interesting.
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