onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/in… - Tiny study of tiny people. Right handed pointing by sixteen 10-12m.o. associated with receptive vocabularies.

450 attendees at this year's International Society for Gesture Studies convention! So many amazing people here! #isgs7

Alibali: gesturing avatars teach FOIL for polynomial multiplication. How do gestures guide students through complicated blackboards? #ISGS7

Alibali: Production processes lead to predictable gestural environments,which restrict comprehenders' expectations & inferences. #ISGS7

Alibali: Different representations = different affordances. Let's help learners connect embodied representations to abstract meanings.#ISGS7

Galati: Speech content and precision resets for new listeners, as does gesture content. But gesture precision shows no reset. #ISGS7

I want to be Wan Vajrabhaya when I grow up. She's crushing her talk on gesture reduction in retelling. #ISGS7

Vajrabhaya | gesture as functionally-drive act: if gesture has low communicative weight it is prone to reduction #ISGS7

Pederson: Studying reduction in gesture requires that neither "reduction" and "gesture" be unitary terms. They contain multitudes. #ISGS7

Hoetjes discusses two options of metrics for gesture rate in studies of reduction. #ISGS7

Gearing up for day 2 of #ISGS7!

Hall: Gesture, more than action, might aid kids' verb generalization--separating the action movement from the objects being acted on. #ISGS7

Lucca: Pointing may signal 18-mo infants' desire for labels, as points-not reaches or looks-don't persist after a label is provided. #ISGS7

Novack: 2.5 year olds extract size info about target objects from handshapes in action, but not gesture. #ISGS7

Wagner-Cook's masterful take on key questions re: the intersection of gesture and action were alone worth the price of admission. #ISGS7

Wakefield: 18mo babies see gesture like movement-for-movement's sake, except when it's concomitant with speech, then it's like action #ISGS7

Bayesian Linear Mixed Models using Stan: A tutorial for psychologists, linguists, and cognitive scientists ling.uni-potsdam.de/~vasishth/stat…

Hilliard: Hippocampal amnesia patients do not show a relationship between episodic memory features and gesture rates; controls do. #ISGS7

Fricke: We need to push back on ignorance in gesture standards for robotic cars & other tech interfaces. #ISGS7 goo.gl/DEVRkl

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