Gestures

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • 18-month-olds comprehend indirect communicative acts. 
  • A new look at infant pointing. 
  • Apragmatism: The renewal of a label for communication disorders associated with right hemisphere brain damage. 
  • Body language: The interplay between positional behavior and gestural signaling in the genus Pan and its implications for language evolution. 
  • Communicating to Learn: Infants' Pointing Gestures Result in Optimal Learning. 
  • Comprehension of iconic gestures by chimpanzees and human children. 
  • Considering the role of social dynamics and positional behavior in gestural communication research. 
  • Cooperative Communication with Humans Evolved to Emerge Early in Domestic Dogs. 
  • Different social motives in the gestural communication of chimpanzees and human children. 
  • Dogs (Canis familiaris) account for body orientation but not visual barriers when responding to pointing gestures. 
  • Dogs (Canis familiaris), but not chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes), understand imperative pointing. 
  • Domestic dogs (Canis familiaris) use a physical marker to locate hidden food. 
  • Domestic dogs use contextual information and tone of voice when following a human pointing gesture. 
  • Early communicative gestures prospectively predict language development and executive function in early childhood. 
  • Gestural communication in subadult bonobos (Pan paniscus): repertoire and use. 
  • Gestural communication in young gorillas (Gorilla gorilla): gestural repertoire, learning, and use. 
  • Hemodynamic signals of mixed messages during a social exchange. 
  • How dogs know when communication is intended for them. 
  • Infants use shared experience to interpret pointing gestures. 
  • Learning Novel Skills From Iconic Gestures: A Developmental and Evolutionary Perspective. 
  • Natural reference: A phylo- and ontogenetic perspective on the comprehension of iconic gestures and vocalizations. 
  • One-year-olds comprehend the communicative intentions behind gestures in a hiding game. 
  • Origins of the human pointing gesture: a training study. 
  • Point, walk, talk: Links between three early milestones, from observation and parental report. 
  • Pointing out new news, old news, and absent referents at 12 months of age. 
  • Prelinguistic infants, but not chimpanzees, communicate about absent entities. 
  • Production and Comprehension of Gestures between Orang-Utans (Pongo pygmaeus) in a Referential Communication Game. 
  • Production and comprehension of referential pointing by orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus). 
  • Reference and attitude in infant pointing. 
  • Self-monitoring without awareness: using mimicry as a nonconscious affiliation strategy. 
  • The antecedents and consequences of human behavioral mimicry. 
  • The emergence of social cognition in three young chimpanzees. 
  • The goal of ape pointing. 
  • The utility of gestures in patients with chest discomfort. 
  • The what and the how: Information-seeking pointing gestures facilitate learning labels and functions. 
  • Thirty years of great ape gestures. 
  • Toddlers Prefer Adults as Informants: 2- and 3-Year-Olds' Use of and Attention to Pointing Gestures From Peer and Adult Partners. 
  • Twelve-month-olds communicate helpfully and appropriately for knowledgeable and ignorant partners. 
  • Twelve-month-olds' comprehension and production of pointing. 
  • Two- and four-year-olds learn to adapt referring expressions to context: effects of distracters and feedback on referential communication. 
  • Two-year-old children but not domestic dogs understand communicative intentions without language, gestures, or gaze. 
  • Two-year-olds use adults' but not peers' points. 
  • Untrained chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) fail to imitate novel actions. 
  • Use of gesture sequences in chimpanzees. 
  • Young children create iconic gestures to inform others. 
  • Young children follow pointing over words in interpreting acts of reference. 
  • Young children spontaneously recreate core properties of language in a new modality. 
  • Young children's understanding of denial.