Gestures

Gestures

Symbolic - purposeful - emblematic

Spontaneous - accident - beat / metaphoric

Extra info

Cake

Chasing someone off

Better understanding

children studies - both better with gestures

Intention

face to face = more gestures

shape and size - can be conveyed

Spatial info DCG

Driskell - fewer guesses spatial info

Graham - english vs italian, drawings

Chen - restrict gestures, less fluent

Complex info

Bilingual - gestures help

criticism - more complex info, harder to convey thru gestures

gestures beneficial to preschool but not kindergarten