Philosophical Transactions: Biological Sciences, Vol. 369, No. 1651, Language as a multimodal phenomenon: implications for language learning, processing and evolution (19 September 2014), pp. 1-10 (10 ...

People move their hands when they talk, and these gestures take many forms. They may move their hands in time with the pace of their speech: Politicians often do this when speaking in front of a group ...

New research published in the journal Cognitive Science provides evidence that the fluidity of a person’s speech influences ...

This matters because intonation (the rise and fall of speech that conveys emotion, emphasis, and intent) can flip meaning ...

Gesture and speech constitute complementary channels in human communication, jointly enabling the expression of complex ideas and enhancing cognitive processing. This field explores how spontaneous or ...

ATLANTA--Gestures--such as pointing or waving--go hand in hand with a child's first words, and twins lag behind single children in producing and using those gestures, two studies from Georgia State ...

Transitions in speech are the secret sauce to keeping your ideas flowing and your audience glued to your every word, says veteran public relations professional and public speaking expert Rosemary ...

Your mother may have taught you that it's rude to point, but according to new research in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, gesturing may actually help ...

The study has shown that two communication cues - intonation and gestures - are also helpful for children with typical language development, but " it's especially useful to apply them in school ...