Gesture and Thought

By David McNeill. 2005

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Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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The semiotic hierarchy: life, consciousness, signs and language (2009, neutral): “…in Africa about 200,000 years ago, this process would have been firmly established, and with this at least the emergence of an integrated gestural-vocal protolanguage (McNeill 2005, Zlatev 2008d), which through processes of cultural evolution gave rise to the multitude of languages we know today.”
Explaining Embodied Cognition Results (2012, background): “Conceptual metaphors structure spontaneous gestures and signs in signed languages (Cienki & Mu¨ller, 2008; McNeill, 1996, 2005; Taub, 2001).”
Why do gestures matter? Sensuous cognition and the palpability of mathematical meanings (2009, neutral): “Goldin-Meadow (2003), Kendon (1981, 1993), Kita (2003), McNeill (2005, 2000) .”
Iconicity as a General Property of Language: Evidence from Spoken and Signed Languages (2010, background): “That is, the tight integration of the two systems (linguistic and imagistic) synchronically suggests the connection has been in place from the beginning, and indeed was instrumental in jump-starting the system (McNeill, 2005).”
Developing language in a developing body: the relationship between motor development and language development (2010, background): “substantial body of literature focusing on the nature and development of this link has been reviewed in detail elsewhere (e.g. Goldin-Meadow & Iverson, in press; McNeill, 2006); and it will therefore not be a focus of this review.”
Gesture-based Object Recognition using Histograms of Guiding Strokes (2012, background): “McNeill [7, 8] proposed a categorization of hand gestures, which consists of four types (or dimensions): iconic, metaphoric, deictic and beat gestures.”
With the Future Behind Them: Convergent Evidence From Aymara Language and Gesture in the Crosslinguistic Comparison of Spatial Construals of Time (2006, background): “As McNeill (1992, 2000, 2005) and others have argued, it offers unique access to some of the less conscious aspects of the cognitive processes underlying language.”
Visualizing Thought (2011, background): “Although it is often presumed—think of the ‘‘letter of the law’’ and transcripts of trials—that meanings are neatly packaged into words joined by rules into utterances, in fact, other channels of communication carry significant aspects of meaning, despite or perhaps because of the fact that they can”
Speech gesture generation from the trimodal context of text, audio, and speaker identity (2020, methodology): “To integrate these multiple modalities, a temporally synchronized encoder–decoder architecture is devised based on the property of temporal synchrony found between speech and gestures in human gesture studies (Chu and Hagoort 2014; McNeill 2008).”
Exploring relationships between pianists’ body movements, their expressive intentions, and structural elements of the music (2012, background): “McNeil (2005) stressed that gestures are engrained within language and, due to their spontaneity, play a pivotal role in shaping speech.”
Enaction, imagination, and insight (2007, background): “This strategy worked well because the language that classical cognitive science had used to describe internal cognitive processes turned out to be perfectly suited to describing external cognitive processes.”
Actions Speak Louder than Words: How Figurative Language and Gesturing in Entrepreneurial Pitches Influences Investment Judgments (2019, methodology): “…has not differentiated the functions of different types of gesture, we distinguished two main forms of gestures used by entrepreneurs – namely, beat gestures and ideational gestures (McNeill, 2005) – and observed that entrepreneurs frequently use ideational gestures in their pitches.”
The HUMAINE Database: Addressing the Collection and Annotation of Naturalistic and Induced Emotional Data (2007, background): “• classical dimensions of gesture annotation ([23] [19] [18] [24]), to allow exploratory study of the impact of emotion on these dimensions: • gesture units (e.”
Discovering the structures of lived experience (2018, background): “…that at least partially reproduce an actual gesture, the shape or movement of an object, or indicate its spatial location, deictic gestures that designate the zone of the body where a 698 C. Petitmengin et al. feeling arises, and metaphoric gestures that Bmime^ inner processes (McNeill 1992, 2005).”
An Integrative Framework for the Analysis of Multiple and Multimodal Representations for Meaning-Making in Science Education (2014, methodology): “…such as pointing gestures were used to determine the component(s) of a representation that a student was referring to, whereas iconic and metaphorical gestures often supplemented the verbal communication with further information (see McNeill, 2005 for the various types and functions of gestures).”