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Learning from Gesture: How Our Hands Change Our Minds

Overview of attention for article published in Educational Psychology Review, July 2015
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (92nd percentile)
  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (68th percentile)

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Title
Learning from Gesture: How Our Hands Change Our Minds
Published in
Educational Psychology Review, July 2015
DOI 10.1007/s10648-015-9325-3
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Authors

Miriam Novack, Susan Goldin-Meadow

Abstract

When people talk, they gesture, and those gestures often reveal information that cannot be found in speech. Learners are no exception. A learner's gestures can index moments of conceptual instability, and teachers can make use of those gestures to gain access into a student's thinking. Learners can also discover novel ideas from the gestures they produce during a lesson, or from the gestures they see their teachers produce. Gesture thus has the power not only to reflect a learner's understanding of a problem, but also to change that understanding. This review explores how gesture supports learning across development, and ends by offering suggestions for ways in which gesture can be recruited in educational settings.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 6 3%
Italy 1 <1%
China 1 <1%
Belgium 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Spain 1 <1%
Unknown 217 95%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 34 15%
Student > Master 31 14%
Researcher 18 8%
Lecturer 17 7%
Student > Doctoral Student 16 7%
Other 68 30%
Unknown 44 19%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 62 27%
Social Sciences 32 14%
Linguistics 15 7%
Unspecified 13 6%
Computer Science 8 4%
Other 40 18%
Unknown 58 25%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 24. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 April 2024.
All research outputs
#1,609,669
of 25,748,735 outputs
Outputs from Educational Psychology Review
#142
of 800 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#19,810
of 275,754 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Educational Psychology Review
#6
of 19 outputs
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