Gestures play key role in human communication but are often overlooked

Monday, March 14, 2016 - 07:30 in Psychology & Sociology

When talking with others, people routinely describe and point at things with their hands, arms, heads, faces, eyes and bodies – with or without props. Yet this action of “depicting” or “staging a scene” non-verbally is little understood in the academic world, according to a newstudy by Herbert Clark, a Stanford cognitive psychologist. And that […]

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