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Recent News & Publications

	October 5, 2011 Expert on Gesture Goldin-Meadow Receives APA Honor for Mentoring Students
TedxUChicago	April 17, 2011 What Our Hands Can Tell Us About Our Minds

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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 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: How Deaf Kids Learn to 'Talk' which was covered by ABCNEWS.com Deafness and Gestures Across Cultures which was covered by National Public Radio (NPR) 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

The two books published by Susan Goldin-Meadow

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:

How Deaf Kids Learn to 'Talk' which was covered by ABCNEWS.com
Deafness and Gestures Across Cultures which was covered by National Public Radio (NPR)

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