Susan Goldin-Meadow
Dr. Susan Goldin-Meadow
email: sgm@uchicago.edu
phone: (773) 702-2585
Research Statement
Curriculum Vitae
Publications & Maunuscripts
Books
Courses


Recent News & Publications

Nov. 16, 2006

Center will add to knowledge base of spatial learning studies


Recent Journal Publications
Journal
Title
Cognition
February 2008
Gesture makes learning last
Cognitive Psychology
September 2007
How children make language out of gesture: Morphological structure in gesture systems developed by American and Chinese deaf children
First Language
2008
Learning to talk in a gesture-rich world: Early communication in Italian vs. American children
First Language
2008
Learning words by hand: Gesture's role in predicting vocabulary development.
Journal of Experimental Psychology: General
Making children gesture reveals implicit knowledge and leads to learning

Recent Chapters
Book Title
Editor(s)
Chapter Title
M. W. Haith & J. B. Benson Theories of Language Acquisition.
S. Duncan
Gesture with speech and without it

See Publications and Manuscripts for Full Details


The two books recently 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.
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

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