Explaining Math: Gesturing Lightens the Load

By S. Goldin‐Meadow, Howard C. Nusbaum, Spencer D. Kelly, Susan M. Wagner. Psychology Science, 2001

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Developmental and Educational Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction

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Affect biases memory of location: Evidence for the spatial representation of affect (2006, background): “Recent work by Goldin-Meadow and colleagues (Goldin-Meadow, Nusbaum, Kelly, & Wagner, 2001 ) shows that gesturing during problem solving can decrease working memory load, perhaps because it shifts some of the cognitive load from verbal to spatial working memory.”
Cognitive Offloading. (2016, methodology): “The second general area in which research on cognitive offloading has important practical implications is education [11,24,73,74].”
Visible embodiment: Gestures as simulated action (2008, background): “This is in line with findings showing that inhibiting gesture during an explanation task diverts resources from a secondary task (Goldin-Meadow et al., 2001; Wagner et al., 2004).”
Facilitating Understanding of Movements in Dynamic Visualizations: an Embodied Perspective (2011, background): “In addition, Goldin-Meadow et al. (2001) argued that gesturing supports learning because it externalizes cognitive processes and thus reduces the task processing demands.”
Competing conceptual representations trigger co-speech representational gestures (2009, background): “When gesture is prohibited, the participants spoke less fluently about space (Rauscher et al, 1996 ), and they performed worse in a concurrent memory task in which they had to retain a letter sequence or a visual pattern (Goldin-Meadow, Nusbaum, Kelly, & Wagner, 2001 ; Wagner et al, 2004 ).”
Seeing subjectivity: defending a perceptual account of other minds (2012, background): “…asked to explain their strategy for solving a math problem while simultaneously remembering a list of words or letters did better on the recall portion of the test (i.e., reciting the list) when they were allowed to gesture while explaining their problemsolving strategy (Goldin-Meadow et al 2001).”
Probing the Mental Representation of Gesture: Is Handwaving Spatial?. (2004, background): “We have previously found that gesturing during an explanation task enhances recall on a concurrent verbal memory task—if asked to explain their solutions to amath task while at the same time remembering a list of verbal items (letters), speakers remember more of those items when gesturing than when ”
Giving Memory a Hand: Instructing Children to Gesture Enhances their Event Recall (2005, background): “Gesture appeared to ease the burden imposed by the explanation task and released effort for the memory task ( Goldin-Meadow, Nusbaum, Kelly, & Wagner, 2001 ).”