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List of works by Susan Goldin-Meadow

A parent-directed language intervention for children of low socioeconomic status: a randomized controlled pilot study

scientific article published on 4 June 2015

A tale of two hands: children's early gesture use in narrative production predicts later narrative structure in speech

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A word in the hand: action, gesture and mental representation in humans and non-human primates

scientific article published on January 2012

Acquiring Word Class Distinctions in American Sign Language: Evidence from Handshape

scientific article published on April 1, 2013

Actions speak louder than gestures when you are 2 years old

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Action’s Influence on Thought: The Case of Gesture

scientific article published on November 1, 2010

Better together: Simultaneous presentation of speech and gesture in math instruction supports generalization and retention

scientific article published on 7 April 2017

Blind Speakers Show Language-Specific Patterns in Co-Speech Gesture but Not Silent Gesture

scientific article published on 08 May 2017

Brain function overlaps when people observe emblems, speech, and grasping

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Breaking down gesture and action in mental rotation: Understanding the components of movement that promote learning

scientific article published on 18 February 2019

CNS activation and regional connectivity during pantomime observation: no engagement of the mirror neuron system for deaf signers

scientific article published on 11 August 2009

Children learn when their teacher's gestures and speech differ

scientific article published in February 2005

Children's Early Decontextualized Talk Predicts Academic Language Proficiency in Midadolescence

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Clinical inquiries. Are drug therapies effective in treating Bell's palsy?

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Co-speech gestures influence neural activity in brain regions associated with processing semantic information

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Communicating about quantity without a language model: number devices in homesign grammar

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Creating Images With the Stroke of a Hand: Depiction of Size and Shape in Sign Language

scientific article published on 31 July 2018

Creating a communication system from scratch: gesture beats vocalization hands down.

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Current Research in Pragmatic Language Use Among Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Differences in early gesture explain SES disparities in child vocabulary size at school entry

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Do iconic gestures pave the way for children's early verbs?

scientific article published on November 2014

Do parents lead their children by the hand?

scientific article published on 01 August 2005

Does language about similarity play a role in fostering similarity comparison in children?

scientific article published on 12 June 2009

Does language shape silent gesture?

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Does linguistic input play the same role in language learning for children with and without early brain injury?

scientific article published on January 2009

Doing gesture promotes learning a mental transformation task better than seeing gesture

scientific article published on September 12, 2012

Early gesture predicts language delay in children with pre- or perinatal brain lesions

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Early gesture selectively predicts later language learning

scientific article published on January 2009

Embodied Learning Across the Life Span

scientific article published on September 7, 2012

Experimentally-induced Increases in Early Gesture Lead to Increases in Spoken Vocabulary

scientific article published on January 2015

Expressing generic concepts with and without a language model

scientific article published on 19 December 2004

From action to abstraction: Gesture as a mechanism of change.

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From action to abstraction: using the hands to learn math

scientific article published on 06 February 2014

From children's hands to adults' ears: gesture's role in the learning process

scientific article published in May 2003

Frontal and temporal contributions to understanding the iconic co‐speech gestures that accompany speech

scientific article published on December 14, 2012

Functional neuroanatomy of gesture-speech integration in children varies with individual differences in gesture processing

scientific article published on 08 March 2018

GESTURE'S ROLE IN CREATING AND LEARNING LANGUAGE

scientific article published on September 2010

Generating a lexicon without a language model: Do words for number count?

scientific article published on November 2013

Gesture and language: Distinct subsystem of an integrated whole

scientific article published in January 2017

Gesture as a window onto children's number knowledge

scientific article published on 23 July 2015

Gesture as a window onto communicative abilities: Implications for diagnosis and intervention

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Gesture as representational action: A paper about function

scientific article published on 7 September 2016

Gesture for Linguists: A Handy Primer

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Gesture for generalization: gesture facilitates flexible learning of words for actions on objects

scientific article published on 15 March 2018

Gesture helps learners learn, but not merely by guiding their visual attention.

scientific article published on 16 April 2018

Gesture in the developing brain

scientific article published on November 2, 2011

Gesture is at the cutting edge of early language development

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Gesture paves the way for language development

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Gesture's Role in Speaking, Learning, and Creating Language

scientific article published on July 25, 2012

Gesture, sign and language: The coming of age of sign language and gesture studies.

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Gestures orchestrate brain networks for language understanding

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Gestures, but not meaningless movements, lighten working memory load when explaining math

scientific article published on May 1, 2012

Gesturing Saves Cognitive Resources When Talking About Nonpresent Objects

scientific article published on May 1, 2010

Gesturing gives children new ideas about math

scientific article published on 13 February 2009

Gesturing has a larger impact on problem-solving than action, even when action is accompanied by words

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Gesturing makes learning last

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Gesturing makes memories that last

scientific article published on November 1, 2010

Gesturing with an injured brain: How gesture helps children with early brain injury learn linguistic constructions

scientific article published on January 1, 2013

Hands in the air: using ungrounded iconic gestures to teach children conservation of quantity

scientific article published on September 2008

Hierarchical structure in a self-created communication system: Building nominal constituents in homesign

scientific article published on December 1, 2012

How Do Profoundly Deaf Children Learn to Read?

How children make language out of gesture: morphological structure in gesture systems developed by American and Chinese deaf children

scientific article published on 27 October 2006

How gesture promotes learning throughout childhood

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How gesture works to change our minds

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How handshape type can distinguish between nouns and verbs in homesign

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How our hands help us learn

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In search of resilient and fragile properties of language

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Individual differences in mental rotation: what does gesture tell us?

scientific article published on February 20, 2013

Is Seeing Gesture Necessary to Gesture Like a Native Speaker?

scientific article published on 15 March 2016

Language Emergence

scientific article published in January 2017

Language by mouth and by hand

scientific article published on 16 February 2015

Language development and brain reorganization in a child born without the left hemisphere

scientific article published on 29 February 2020

Language input and acquisition in a Mayan village: how important is directed speech?

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Learning from gesture: How early does it happen?

scientific article published in June 2015

Learning from gesture: How our hands change our minds

scientific article published on September 2015

Learning math by hand: The neural effects of gesture-based instruction in 8-year-old children

scientific article published on 01 October 2019

Learning through gesture

scientific article published on November 2011

Learning to talk in a gesture-rich world: Early communication in Italian vs. American children

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Learning what children know about space from looking at their hands: The added value of gesture in spatial communication

scientific article published on December 28, 2011

Learning words by hand: Gesture's role in predicting vocabulary development

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Linking language to sensory experience: onomatopoeia in early language development

scientific article published on 24 November 2020

Longitudinally adaptive assessment and instruction increase numerical skills of preschool children

scientific article published on 26 October 2020

Making children gesture brings out implicit knowledge and leads to learning

scientific article published in November 2007

Manual directional gestures facilitate cross-modal perceptual learning

scientific article published on 14 March 2019

Meaning before order: Cardinal principle knowledge predicts improvement in understanding the successor principle and exact ordering

scientific article published on 06 July 2018

Mental Transformation Skill in Young Children: The Role of Concrete and Abstract Motor Training

scientific article published on 12 March 2018

Moving to Learn: How Guiding the Hands Can Set the Stage for Learning

scientific article published on 24 September 2015

Narrative processing in typically developing children and children with early unilateral brain injury: seeing gesture matters

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Narrative skill in children with early unilateral brain injury: a possible limit to functional plasticity

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Negation, questions, and structure building in a homesign system

scientific article published on November 19, 2010

New evidence about language and cognitive development based on a longitudinal study: hypotheses for intervention

scientific article published on 9 June 2014

Number gestures predict learning of number words

scientific article published on 04 February 2019

Number without a language model

scientific article published on February 7, 2011

Occluding the face diminishes the conceptual accessibility of an animate agent

scientific article published on 26 September 2018

On the way to language: event segmentation in homesign and gesture

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Parent Praise to Toddlers Predicts Fourth Grade Academic Achievement via Children's Incremental Mindsets

scientific article published on 27 November 2017

Parent praise to 1- to 3-year-olds predicts children's motivational frameworks 5 years later

scientific article published on 11 February 2013

Parents' early book reading to children: Relation to children's later language and literacy outcomes controlling for other parent language input

scientific article published on 15 January 2019

Perceiving referential intent: Dynamics of reference in natural parent-child interactions

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Pointing and naming are not redundant: children use gesture to modify nouns before they modify nouns in speech

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Pointing sets the stage for learning language--and creating language

scientific article published on May 2007

Prosody in a communication system developed without a language model.

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Quality of early parent input predicts child vocabulary 3 years later

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Repeated movie viewings produce similar local activity patterns but different network configurations

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Sensitivity of alpha and beta oscillations to sensorimotor characteristics of action: An EEG study of action production and gesture observation

scientific article published on August 15, 2012

Sex differences in language first appear in gesture

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Spatial analogies pervade complex relational reasoning: Evidence from spontaneous gestures

scientific article published on 7 December 2016

Spatial language facilitates spatial cognition: Evidence from children who lack language input

scientific article published on March 28, 2013

Speech-accompanying gestures are not processed by the language-processing mechanisms

scientific article published on 02 July 2019

Speech-associated gestures, Broca's area, and the human mirror system

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Statistical evidence that a child can create a combinatorial linguistic system without external linguistic input: Implications for language evolution

scientific article published on 29 December 2016

Studying the mechanisms of language learning by varying the learning environment and the learner

scientific article published on 05 March 2015

Talking with Your (Artificial) Hands: Communicative Hand Gestures as an Implicit Measure of Embodiment

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

Teaching moral reasoning through gesture

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The Development of Causal Structure without a Language Model

scientific article published on 4 January 2017

The Pace of Vocabulary Growth Helps Predict Later Vocabulary Skill

scientific article published on January 11, 2012

The Role of Gesture in Supporting Mental Representations: The Case of Mental Abacus Arithmetic

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The Seeds of Spatial Grammar in the Manual Modality

scientific article published on November 12, 2005

The Seeds of the Noun–Verb Distinction in the Manual Modality: Improvisation and Interaction in the Emergence of Grammatical Categories

scientific article published in 2022

The Story Behind Parent-child Book-reading Interactions: Specific Relations to Later Language and Reading Outcomes

scientific article published on April 1, 2011

The communicative importance of agent-backgrounding: Evidence from homesign and Nicaraguan Sign Language

scientific article published on 16 June 2020

The development of iconicity in children's co-speech gesture and homesign

scientific article published on 2 October 2017

The emergence of the formal category "symmetry" in a new sign language

scientific article published on 28 May 2019

The gestures ASL signers use tell us when they are ready to learn math

scientific article published on March 14, 2012

The impact of time on predicate forms in the manual modality: signers, homesigners, and silent gesturers

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The importance of gesture in children's spatial reasoning

scientific article published in November 2006

The natural order of events: how speakers of different languages represent events nonverbally

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The origins of higher-order thinking lie in children's spontaneous talk across the pre-school years

scientific article published on 07 May 2020

The pace of vocabulary growth during preschool predicts cortical structure at school age.

scientific article published on 19 May 2016

The resilience of structure built around the predicate: Homesign gesture systems in Turkish and American deaf children

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Thought before language: how deaf and hearing children express motion events across cultures

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Truth is at hand: how gesture adds information during investigative interviews

scientific article (publication date: May 2010)

Turkish- and English-speaking children display sensitivity to perceptual context in the referring expressions they produce in speech and gesture

scientific article published on October 25, 2011

Unconscious Number Discrimination in the Human Visual System

scientific article published on 12 June 2020

Understanding gesture: Is the listener’s motor system involved?

scientific article published on April 8, 2013

Unpacking the Ontogeny of Gesture Understanding: How Movement Becomes Meaningful Across Development

scientific article published on 15 May 2017

Using Gesture To Identify and Address Early Concerns About Language and Pragmatics

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Using our hands to change our minds

scientific article published on December 2016

Using the Hands to Identify Who Does What to Whom: Gesture and Speech Go Hand-in-Hand

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Visual cortex entrains to sign language

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Vocabulary, syntax, and narrative development in typically developing children and children with early unilateral brain injury: early parental talk about the "there-and-then" matters

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Watching language grow

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What counts as effective input for word learning?

scientific article published on May 10, 2012

What makes a movement a gesture?

scientific article published on 24 October 2015

What the hands can tell us about language emergence

scientific article published in July 2016

When Gesture Becomes Analogy

scientific article published on 18 June 2017

When do speakers use gestures to specify who does what to whom? The role of language proficiency and type of gestures in narratives.

scientific article published on December 2013

When does a system become phonological? Handshape production in gesturers, signers, and homesigners

scientific article published on February 1, 2012

When gesture does and does not promote learning

scientific article published on May 2010

When gesture-speech combinations do and do not index linguistic change

scientific article published on February 2009

When speech is ambiguous gesture steps in: Sensitivity to discourse-pragmatic principles in early childhood

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Widening the Lens on Language Learning: Language Creation in Deaf Children and Adults in Nicaragua: Commentary on Senghas

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Widening the lens: what the manual modality reveals about language, learning and cognition

scientific article published on September 2014

Young children use their hands to tell their mothers what to say.

scientific article published in November 2007