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The Role of Gesture in Learning: Do Children Use Their Hands to Change Their Minds? by Cook, Susan Wagner, Goldin-Meadow, Susan

“…Adding gesture to spoken instructions makes those instructions more effective. The question we ask here is why. A group of 49 third and fourth grade children…”
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Using the hands to learn about the brain: Testing action‐based instruction in brain anatomy by Parrill, Fey, Shymanski, Jeffrey J., Cook, Susan Wagner

“…Abstract Brain anatomy is typically taught using static images. We asked participants to use their own hands to represent the brain and perform gestures during…”
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Gesturing makes learning last by Cook, Susan Wagner, Mitchell, Zachary, Goldin-Meadow, Susan

“…The gestures children spontaneously produce when explaining a task predict whether they will subsequently learn that task. Why? Gesture might simply reflect a…”
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Consolidation and Transfer of Learning After Observing Hand Gesture by Cook, Susan Wagner, Duffy, Ryan G., Fenn, Kimberly M.

“…Children who observe gesture while learning mathematics perform better than children who do not, when tested immediately after training. How does observing…”
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Gesturing Gives Children New Ideas About Math by Goldin-Meadow, Susan, Cook, Susan Wagner, Mitchell, Zachary A.

“…How does gesturing help children learn? Gesturing might encourage children to extract meaning implicit in their hand movements. If so, children should be…”
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Hand gestures support word learning in patients with hippocampal amnesia by Hilverman, Caitlin, Cook, Susan Wagner, Duff, Melissa C.

“…Co‐speech hand gesture facilitates learning and memory, yet the cognitive and neural mechanisms supporting this remain unclear. One possibility is that motor…”
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Making Children Gesture Brings Out Implicit Knowledge and Leads to Learning by Broaders, Sara C, Cook, Susan Wagner, Mitchell, Zachary, Goldin-Meadow, Susan

“…Speakers routinely gesture with their hands when they talk, and those gestures often convey information not found anywhere in their speech. This information is…”
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A pre-registered, multi-lab non-replication of the action-sentence compatibility effect (ACE) by Morey, Richard D., Kaschak, Michael P., Díez-Álamo, Antonio M., Glenberg, Arthur M., Zwaan, Rolf A., Lakens, Daniël, Ibáñez, Agustín, García, Adolfo, Gianelli, Claudia, Jones, John L., Madden, Julie, Alifano, Florencia, Bergen, Benjamin, Bloxsom, Nicholas G., Bub, Daniel N., Cai, Zhenguang G., Chartier, Christopher R., Chatterjee, Anjan, Conwell, Erin, Cook, Susan Wagner, Davis, Joshua D., Evers, Ellen R. K., Girard, Sandrine, Harter, Derek, Hartung, Franziska, Herrera, Eduar, Huettig, Falk, Humphries, Stacey, Juanchich, Marie, Kühne, Katharina, Lu, Shulan, Lynes, Tom, Masson, Michael E. J., Ostarek, Markus, Pessers, Sebastiaan, Reglin, Rebecca, Steegen, Sara, Thiessen, Erik D., Thomas, Laura E., Trott, Sean, Vandekerckhove, Joachim, Vanpaemel, Wolf, Vlachou, Maria, Williams, Kristina, Ziv-Crispel, Noam

“…The Action-sentence Compatibility Effect (ACE) is a well-known demonstration of the role of motor activity in the comprehension of language. Participants are…”
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Gesturing makes memories that last by Cook, Susan Wagner, Yip, Terina KuangYi, Goldin-Meadow, Susan

“…When people are asked to perform actions, they remember those actions better than if they are asked to talk about the same actions. But when people talk, they…”
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Embodied communication: Speakers’ gestures affect listeners’ actions by Cook, Susan Wagner, Tanenhaus, Michael K.

“…We explored how speakers and listeners use hand gestures as a source of perceptual-motor information during naturalistic communication. After solving the Tower…”
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How Prior Knowledge, Gesture Instruction, and Interference After Instruction Interact to Influence Learning of Mathematical Equivalence by Cook, Susan Wagner, Wernette, Elle M. D., Valentine, Madison, Aldugom, Mary, Pruner, Todd, Fenn, Kimberly M.

“…Although children learn more when teachers gesture, it is not clear how gesture supports learning. Here, we sought to investigate the nature of the memory…”
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Gesture during math instruction specifically benefits learners with high visuospatial working memory capacity by Aldugom, Mary, Fenn, Kimberly, Cook, Susan Wagner

“…Background Characteristics of both teachers and learners influence mathematical learning. For example, when teachers use hand gestures to support instruction,…”
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Teaching little kids big sentences: A randomized controlled trial showing that children with DLD respond to complex syntax intervention embedded within the context of preschool/kindergarten science instruction by Owen Van Horne, Amanda J., Curran, Maura, Cook, Susan Wagner, Cole, Renée, McGregor, Karla K.

“…Background The language of the science curriculum is complex, even in the early grades. To communicate their scientific observations, children must produce…”
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Gestures, but not meaningless movements, lighten working memory load when explaining math by Cook, Susan Wagner, Yip, Terina Kuangyi, Goldin-Meadow, Susan

“…Gesturing is ubiquitous in communication and serves an important function for listeners, who are able to glean meaningful information from the gestures they…”
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Bridging Gaps in Common Ground: Speakers Design Their Gestures for Their Listeners by Hilliard, Caitlin, Cook, Susan Wagner

“…Communication is shaped both by what we are trying to say and by whom we are saying it to. We examined whether and how shared information influences the…”
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A technique for continuous measurement of body movement from video by Hilliard, Caitlin, Cook, Susan Wagner

“…The movements that we make with our body vary continuously along multiple dimensions. However, many of the tools and techniques presently used for coding and…”
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Emoji as gesture in digital communication: Emoji improve comprehension of indirect speech by Hancock, Patrick M., Hilverman, Caitlin, Cook, Susan Wagner, Halvorson, Kimberly M.

“…As reliance on digital communication grows, so does the importance of communicating effectively with text. Yet when communicating with text, benefits from…”
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Hand Gesture and Mathematics Learning: Lessons From an Avatar by Cook, Susan Wagner, Friedman, Howard S., Duggan, Katherine A., Cui, Jian, Popescu, Voicu

“…A beneficial effect of gesture on learning has been demonstrated in multiple domains, including mathematics, science, and foreign language vocabulary. However,…”
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The Challenge of Rich Vocabulary Instruction for Children with Developmental Language Disorder by McGregor, Karla K, Van Horne, Amanda Owen, Curran, Maura, Cook, Susan Wagner, Cole, Renee

“…Purpose: The aims of the study were to explore responses of children with developmental language disorder (DLD) to rich vocabulary instruction and to identify…”
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Teachers' Gestures and How They Matter by Church, R Breckinridge, Perry, Michelle, Singer, Melissa A, Cook, Susan Wagner, Alibali, Martha Wagner

“…How do teachers' gestures influence students' learning? This article reviews research investigating the role of gestures in communication, focusing on…”
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