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Recent Journal Publications
Journal
Title
Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America,
2011
Number without a language model
WIREs (Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews): Cognitive Science
2011
Learning through gesture.
Persepctives on Psychological Science, 2010 Action's influence on thought: The case of gesture.

Recent Chapters
Book Title
Editor(s)
Chapter Title
Handbook on sign language linguistics
R. Pfau, M. Steinbach & B. Woll Using the hands to study how children learn language.
Crosslinguistic approaches to the psychology of language:  Research in the tradition of Dan Isaac Slobin.
J. Guo, E. Lieven, N. Budwig & S. Ervin-Tripp
A cross-linguistic study of homesign in the United States, China, and Turkey.

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The two books published by Susan Goldin-Meadow

Resilience of Language Cover Hearing Gesture Cover
Resilience of Language
Spontaneously Created Gesture Systems
Hearing Gesture
The Gestures We Produce When We Talk
Dr. Susan Goldin-Meadow's research with Carolyn Mylander on the gestures of deaf American and Chinese children has received international attention.
Examples of these press releases are:
The study has also been covered in the Chicago Tribune, Washington Post, the Daily Telegraph in Great Britain, and Der Spiegel in Germany.

Illustrative videoclips from this book can be found at PsyPress.

Dr. Goldin-Meadow's research on the gestures that hearing speakers produce when they talk is described in her book, Hearing Gesture: How Our Hands Help Us Think. This book was published in 2003 by Harvard University Press.

This work has also received press coverage, including the Boston Globe, the Chicago Sun-Times, Spektrum de Wissenschaften (the German edition of Scientific American), Red Book, and the Readers Digest list of breakthroughs in 2003. In addition, the work was the subject of a limerick on NPR's Wait, Wait Don't Tell Me (November 17, 2001):

If your brain doesn't meet high demands
Here's some gestures to loosen your glands.
Put ‘em up in the air,
Shake ‘em like you don't care.
You'll be smarter if you use your _________.

Answer: HANDS


American Psychological Association Mentor Award

Presentation Honoring Susan Goldin-Meadow by:

Michelle Perry

Ruth Church



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