Gesture Research - Is Your Hands Leading Your Thoughts?

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i wonder if you could talk a little bit about gesturingias. I was riveted by some of the research that you covered suggesting that we literally talk with our hands, but sometimes our hands actually lead us into our thoughts. The idea that i could move and actually learn or verbalize through my motions, that was, that was ly fresh perspective for me. So how did you arrive at that? And what do we know?

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