Goldin-Meadow Lab: Susan Goldin-Meadow

Dr. Susan Goldin-Meadow

email: sgm@uchicago.edu
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Recent News & Publications

	4 November 2007 "Gesturing Helps Grade-Schoolers Solve Math Problems"
	Aug. 6, 2007 Gestures Convey Message: Learning in Progress
	May. 1 2007 Primate Gestures May Be Clue to Human Language
	Nov. 16, 2006 Center will add to knowledge base of spatial learning studies
	Jul. 12, 2006 South America's Aymara put future behind them Journal Reference
	past articles in the news

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
Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development	M. W. Haith & J. B. Benson	Theories of Language Acquisition.
Gesture and the dynamic dimension of language: Essays in honor of David McNeill	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 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.	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 recently 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.

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