Learn more about hand gestures and how some of them can mean two vastly different things depending on the culture you're in.

New research published in the journal Cognitive Science provides evidence that the fluidity of a person’s speech influences how knowledgeable they appear to others. The findings indicate that speakers ...

When people talk face to face, they don’t rely on words alone. They move their hands, raise their eyebrows, or nod to help express what they mean. These gestures often carry meaning and help listeners ...

In face-to-face conversations, speakers use hand movements to signal meaning. But do listeners actually use these gestures to predict what someone might say next? In a study using virtual avatars, ...

Multimodal communication is an interdisciplinary field that addresses the integration of verbal language with non-verbal modes such as gesture, facial expression and prosody. This area of research ...