of
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Date of Birth: 17th of August, 1949
Married: 20th of June, 1971
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University of Chicago
Department of Psychology
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Chicago, IL 60637
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| 1967-1971 | Smith College, B.A |
| 1969-1970 | Institut des Sciences de l'Education, Geneva, Switzerland |
| 1971-1975 | University of Pennsylvania M.A. in Psychology, 1972 Ph.D. in Psychology, 1975 |
| 2006-Present | Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor, University of Chicago |
| 2001-2006 | Irving B. Harris Professor, University of Chicago |
| 1992-2001 | Full Professor Department of Psychology, Committee on Human Development, Department of Education,The Center for East Asian Studies, and the College University of Chicago |
| 1981-1992 | Associate Professor, University of Chicago |
| Jan-May 1981 | Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Illinois Department of Psychology University of Illinois at Champaign |
| 1976-1981 | Assistant Professor, University of Chicago |
| 1969-1970 | Junior Year Abroad (Smith College), Geneva Switzerland |
| 1971 | B.A., Magna cum laude with honors in psychology, Smith College |
| 1971 | Sigma Xi, Smith College |
| 1971-1975 | NICHHD Graduate Trainee, University of Pennsylvania |
| 1974-1975 | Spencer Foundation Research Award, University of Pennsylvania The spontaneous generation of a language: The study of deaf children of hearing parents (with H. Feldman) |
| 1975 | AAUW Predoctoral Fellowship Award |
| 1975 | NIH Postdoctoral Fellowship, awarded |
| 1979 | Ten Outstanding Young Citizens Award for Professional Achievement presented by the Chicago Junior Association of Commerce and Industry |
| 1992 | Elected Fellow, American Psychological Society |
| 1993 | Burlington Northern Faculty Achievement Award for Graduate Teaching |
| 1998 | Research Grant from the Isaac & Viola H. Stern Endowment Fund for Extraordinary Service to the University |
| 1998-2003 | NIH Study Section (BBBP-3, Language and Communication) |
| 1999-2000 | Member, Committee on Integrating the Science of Early Childhood Development, sponsored by the Board on Children, Youth, and Families of the National Research Council and the Institute of Medicine |
| 1999-2002 | Member-at-Large, Section on Linguistics and Language Science, American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| 2000-2001 | James McKeen Cattell Fellowship |
| 2000-2001 | John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship |
| 2001 | Irving B. Harris Professorship in Psychology |
| 2002 | Elected Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| 2002 | Elected Fellow, American Psychological Association, Division 7 (Developmental Psychology) |
| 2002-2003 | Chair, Committee to select the recipient of the Mentor Award, American Psychological Association, Division 7 |
| 2003-2005 | President of the Cognitive Development Society (President-Elect 2001-2003) |
| 2003 | Elected Fellow, American Psychological Association, Division 3 (Experimental Psychology) |
| 2003-2006 | Representative from the Linguistic Society of America to the Psychology Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science |
| 2003 | Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching |
| 2003 | APS William James Distinguished Lecture |
| 2004 | Invited to present the Nijmegen Lectures, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics |
| 2004-2009 | Center for the Study of Mathematics Curriculum, Advisory Board |
| 2004-2008 | Advisory Council of the National Deafness and Other Communication Disorders, National Institutes of Health |
| 2004- | Founding Editor, Language Learning and Development |
| 2005 | Invited to present a Master Lecture at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Association |
| 2005-2007 | Chair of the Section on Linguistics and Language Sciences for the AAAS (Chair-Elect 2005-2006; Retiring Chair 2007-2008) |
| 2005 | Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
| 2005 & 2006 | APA Science Leadership Conference |
| 2006 | Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor |
| 2006 | Offered a Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences |
| 2007 | Book Award from the Cognitive Development Society for “Hearing Gestures: How Our Hands Help Us Think” |
| 2007 | Selection committee for the Division 7 Bronfenbrenner and G. Stanley Hall awards |
| 2007 | Elected to honorary membership, Beta of Illinois Chapter of Phi beta Kappa |
| 2007 | President, International Society for Gesture Studies (2007-2009) |
| 2007 | Elected Fellow, Cognitive Science Society |
| 2008 | Elected Member-at-Large of the Psychology Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2008-12) |
| 2008 | Elected to serve on the Board of Directors of the American Psychological Society |
| 1984-1988 | Chair, Educational Psychology, University of Chicago |
| 1987-1990 | Chair, Developmental Psychology, University of Chicago |
| 1988-1991 | Committee of the Council, University Senate, University of Chicago |
| 1989-1991 | Chair, Committee to Formulate a Policy on Sexual Harassment |
| 1995-1996 | Chair, Human Development, University of Chicago |
| 1999-2000 | Chair, Human Development, University of Chicago |
| 1996-1997 | Committee to Advise on Selection of the Master of the Social Sciences |
| 1997-1998 | Committee to Evaluate Educational Research & Training at the University |
| 1998-1999 | Committee to Advise on Selection of the Dean of the Social Sciences |
| 1998-2004 | Board of Directors, University of Chicago Laboratory Schools |
| 2002-2003 | Committee to Consider a BA/MAT Degree at the University of Chicago |
| 2002-2003 | Committee to Advise on Selection of the Dean of the Social Sciences |
| 2003-2004 | Harper-Schmidt Fellows Selection Committee |
| 2003-2004 | Committee to Standardize Research Appointments in the Social Sciences |
| 2004-2007 | Advisory Board, Urban Teacher Education Program |
| 2005-2008 | Council of the University Senate, University of Chicago |
| 2007-2008 | Committee of the Council, University of Chicago |
Internal Funding:
| 1976, 1977, 1979, 1982 | Spencer Foundation Research Funds University of Chicago |
| 1976, 1977, 1989 | Social Science Division Research Funds University of Chicago |
| 1977, 1978, 1980, 1989 | Biomedical Research Support University of Chicago |
| 1981, 1982, 1983 | Benton Educational Research Fund University of Chicago |
External Funding:
| 1977-1980 | National Science Foundation Research Grant. Creation of a Language-like System by Deaf Children |
| 1980-1981 | National Science Foundation Research Grant. Creation of a Language-like System by Deaf Children: The Late Stages |
| 1980-1982 | Spencer Foundation Research Grant. Creation of a Language-like system by Deaf Children: The Late Stages |
| 1982-1983 | Spencer Foundation Research Grant. Environmental Influences on Morphology in a Spontaneous Gesture System Developed by Deaf Children of Hearing Parents |
| 1984-1986 | National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Research Grant. Transitional Knowledge in the Acquisition of Concepts. |
| 1984-1988 | National Science Foundation Research Grant. Development of Morphology under Atypical Language Learning Conditions |
| 1987-1990 | National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Research Grant. Transitional Knowledge in the Acquisition of Concepts (continuation) |
| 1988-1992 | National Science Foundation Research Grant. Morphology in the Spontaneous Sign Systems of American and Chinese Deaf Children |
| 1988-1993 | National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke Research Grant. Spontaneous Sign Systems in Chinese and American Children |
| 1993-1995 | March of Dimes. The Changing Role of Gesture in Relation to Speech in Children with Congenital Brain Damage |
| 1993-1996 | National Institute of Neurological and Communicative Disorders and Stroke Research Grant. Spontaneous Sign Systems in Chinese and American Children (continuation) |
| 1994-1996 | National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. Gesture-Speech Mismatch and Transitions in Learning |
| 1995-2000 | Spencer Foundation Research Grant. Gesture-Speech Mismatch as an Educational Tool: Using the Hand to Read the Mind |
| 1996-2000 | March of Dimes. The Role of Gesture in Relation to Speech in Congenitally Blind Children |
| 1996-2001 | National Institute of Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders Grant. Spontaneous Sign Systems in Chinese and American Children (continuation) |
| 2001-2006 | National Institute of Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders Grant. Spontaneous Sign Systems in Four Cultures (continuation) |
| 2002-2007 | National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Program Project. Environmental & Biological Variation and Language Growth (PI of Project) |
| 2004-2009 | National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. The Role of Gesture in Learning |
| 2006-2011 | National Institute of Deafness and Other Communicative Disorders Grant. Spontaneous Sign Systems in Five Cultures (continuation) |
| 2008-2013 | National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Program Project. Environmental & Biological Variation and Language Growth (PI of Project, continuation). |
| 2008-2011 | March of Dimes. Patterns of Gesture and Speech Use by Congenitally Blind Children in Two Cultures. |
NSF Linguistics Grant Review Panel: May 1992
NIH Study Section: Special Emphasis Panel June 1993;
Communication Sciences and Disorders, and Biobehavioral and Behavioral Processes 3 Study Sections: 1998-2003
Founding Editor: Language Learning and Development, 2005-
Associate Editor: Developmental Psychology, 1994-1997
Board of Advisors: Jean Piaget Society, 1994-1997, 2000-2003
Editorial Board: Applied Psycholinguistics, 1979-81, 1988-91, 2002-06. Cognitive Development, 2001-. Gesture, 2001-. Cognitive Science, 2005-. Perspectives on Psychological Science, 2006.
Editorial Consultant: Cognition, Child Development, Cognitive Development, Cognitive Psychology, Journal of Speech and Hearing Disorders, Language and Speech, Developmental Psychology, Merrill-Palmer Quarterly, Science, Journal of Verbal Learning and Verbal Behavior, Volta Review, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Journal of Memory and Language, Journal of Child Language, Journal of Comparative Psychology, Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, Journal of Educational Psychology, Memory & Cognition, New England Journal of Medicine, British Journal of Psychology
Review Consultant: National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities, The New York Academy of Sciences, National Institutes of Health, March of Dimes
Review Panel: Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting, Boston University Child Language Conference
Program Committee: Cognitive Science, 2005
Advisory Council: HI-MAPS Project of the David T. Siegel Institute, Michael Reese Hospital and Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois (Hearing handicapped Infants providing Medical, Academic, and Psychological Services), 1980-1983
Meeting to discuss strategic planning of extramural funding in the Language, Bilingual, and Biliteracy Development and Disorders portfolio, Child Development and Behavior Branch of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, December 2003
National Deafness and Other Communication Disorders Advisory Council, National Institutes of Health, 2004-2008
American Academy of Arts and Sciences
American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow, 2002)
American Psychological Society (Fellow, 1992)
American Psychological Association (Fellow, 2002)
Society for Research in Child Development
American Speech and Hearing Association
Linguistic Society of America
| 1970-1979 | 1980-1989 | 1990-1999 | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 |
Goldin-Meadow, S. & Feldman, H. The creation of a communication system. Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Denver, CO, April 1975.
Goldin-Meadow, S. & Feldman, H. The creation of syntax: A study of deaf children of hearing parents. Presented at the Eastern Psychological Association Meeting, New York, April 1975.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Semantic relations in a manual language created by deaf children of hearing parents. Presented at the Conference on Sign Language and Neurolinguistics, Rochester, NY, September 1976.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Structural semantic relations in a communication system developed without a language model: An ergative system. Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, New Orleans, LA, March 1977.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Underlying structure in the complex phrases of a communication system developed without a language model. Presented at the 11th Annual Child Language Research Forum, Stanford University, CA, April 1979.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Language development without a language model. Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA, April 1981.
Morford, M. & Goldin-Meadow, S. Gestural harbingers of two-word speech. Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Detroit, MI, April 1983.
Galambos, S. & Goldin-Meadow, S. A multidimensional view of metalinguistic awareness. Presented at the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, IL, April 1983.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Language development without a language model. Presented as part of the symposium, "Sign Language Evolution: Implications for Linguistic Theory, " at the Anthropological Association Meetings, Chicago, IL, November 1983.
Goldin-Meadow, S. & Mylander, C. The development of morphology without a conventional language model. Presented at the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, IL, April 1984.
Ivins, J. & Goldin-Meadow, S. Gestural comprehension and its relationship to verbal comprehension. Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Toronto, Canada, April 1985.
Goldin-Meadow, S. & Mylander, C. The development of morphology without a conventional language model. Presented at the Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Rochester, NY, June 1986.
Church, R. B., Perry, M. & Goldin-Meadow, S. The mismatch between gesture and speech as a reflection of knowledge in transition. Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD, April 1987.
Galambos, S. & Goldin-Meadow, S. The effect of bilingualism on metalinguistic awareness. Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Baltimore, MD, April 1987.
Church, R. B., Perry, M. & Goldin-Meadow, S. The mismatch between gesture and speech as a reflection of transitional knowledge: A longitudinal assessment of concept acquisition. Presented at the Conference on Human Development, Charleston, NC, March 1988.
Perry, M., Church, R. B. , & Goldin-Meadow, S. Learning a principle vs. learning a procedure: Looking beyond what is taught. Presented at AERA, New Orleans, LA, April 1988.
Goldin-Meadow, S., Mylander, C. & Dodge, M. Gesture used as a primary communication system by deaf children of hearing parents. Presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Kansas City, MO, April 1989.
Goldin-Meadow, S. When is gesture like language? A comparison of gesture with and without speech. Symposium presented at the Society for Research in Child Development, Kansas City, MO, April 1989.
Goldin-Meadow, S., Mylander, C., Liu, L. & Wang, X. Levels of structure in spontaneous gesture systems developed by American and Chinese deaf children. Presented at the Third International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Boston, MA, May 1990.
Wagner, M., Scott, M., Church, R. B., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Disequilibrium in concept acquisition: What the hands reveal about a child's state of mind. Presented at the annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Philadelphia, PA, June 1990.
Bekken, K. , Goldin-Meadow, S., & Dymkowski, T. Dissociation of maternal speech and gesture to deaf children of hearing parents. Presented at the 15th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, October 1990.
Goldin-Meadow, S., Nusbaum, H. & Garber, P. Transitions in learning: Evidence for simultaneous hypotheses. Presented as part of a symposium on transitional knowledge at the Society for Research in Child Development, Seattle, WA, April 1991.
Church, R. B., Momeni, C. M., Williams, T., Garber, P., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Detection of unstable knowledge: The function of gesture and speech in natural teaching interactions. Paper presented as part of a symposium on transitional knowledge and its role in learning interactions at the annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Montreal, Canada, May 1992.
Morford, J. P., Singleton, J. L., & Goldin-Meadow, S. The creation of manual communication over three different timespans. Poster presented at a conference on theoretical issues in sign language research, San Diego, CA, August 1992.
Singleton, J. L., Goldin-Meadow, S., & McNeill, D. The cataclysmic break between gesticulation and sign. Poster presented at a conference on theoretical issues in sign language research, San Diego, CA, August 1992.
Alibali, M. W. & Goldin-Meadow, S. Implicit knowledge displayed in gesture sets the agenda for learning. Paper presented as part of a symposium entitled "Implicit-explicit knowledge: Theoretical and empirical implications for concept learning" at the Society for Research in Child Development, New Orleans, LA, March 1993.
Goldin-Meadow, S. The role of gesture vis a vis speech in early child language. Symposium organized for the Society for Research in Child Development, New Orleans, LA, March 1993.
Butcher, C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. From one spoken word to two: Exploring the changing nature of gesture in English-learning children. Paper presented as part of a symposium at the Society for Research in Child Development, New Orleans, LA, March 1993.
Morford, J. P., Singleton, J. L., & Goldin-Meadow, S. The role of iconicity in manual communication. Paper presented at the Chicago Linguistic Society, Chicago, IL, April 1993.
Butcher, C. & Goldin-Meadow, S. From one word to two: Exploring the changing nature of gesture. Paper presented at the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, April 1993.
Iverson, J. M., Butcher, C., Goldin-Meadow, S., Capirci, O., & Caselli, M. C. Across the ocean: Evidence for the integration of gesture and speech in children acquiring Italian and in children acquiring English. Paper presented as part of a symposium entitled "Hands across the waters: Cross-cultural psycholinguistic gesture research" at the American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL, June 1993.
Alibali, M. W., & Goldin-Meadow, S. The mechanism of gesture-speech mismatch. Paper presented as part of a symposium entitled "Gesture-speech mismatch as a general index of transitional knowledge" at the American Psychological Society, Chicago, IL, June 1993.
Alibali, M. W., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Modeling learning using evidence from speech and gesture. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Denver, CO, June 1993.
Iverson, J., & Goldin-Meadow, S. The internal function of gesture: Evidence from conservation and narrative tasks in school-age blind children. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Chicago, IL, June 1994.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Discussant for the symposium entitled "Understanding the functions of gestural communication" at the annual meeting of the Jean Piaget Society, Chicago, IL, June 1994.
Wang, X-L., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Mylander, C. A cross-cultural study of mother-child interaction in Chinese and American families. Paper presented at the Second International Congress of Family Psychology, Padua, Italy, July 1994.
Morford, J., Singleton, J., & Goldin-Meadow, S. From Homesign to ASL: Identifying the influences of a self-generated childhood gesture system upon language proficiency in adulthood. Paper presented at the Boston Child Language Conference, Boston, MA, November 1994.
Wang, X-L., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Mylander, C. A comparative study of Chinese and American mothers interacting with their deaf and hearing children. Paper presented as part of a symposium entitled "Growing up in Chinese and American cultures: New insights from comparative research" at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, IN, March 1995.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Discussant for the symposium entitled "The gesture-speech relationship: New perspectives from atypical populations" at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Indianapolis, IN, March 1995.
Alibali, M. W., Bassok, M., Olseth, K. L., Syc, S. E., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Gestures reveal mental models of discrete and continuous change. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Pittsburgh, PA, July 1995.
Singleton, J. L., Goldin-Meadow, S., & McNeill, D. Do signers gesture? A discussion of the relationship between gesticulation and sign. Paper presented at the 4th International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Albuquerque, NM, July 1995.
Iverson, J. M., & Goldin-Meadow, S. What's communication got to do with it? Gesture in congenitally blind children. Paper presented at the 20th annual meeting of the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, November, 1995.
Fernandez, E., Flevares, L., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Kurtzberg, T. The role of the hand in teacher-student interaction. Paper presented at the annual meeting of AERA, New York, April 1996.
Garber, P., Bidell, T., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Church, R. B. Mechanisms of cognitive change revealed in gesture: Evidence from the tower of Hanoi. Paper presented at the annual symposium of the Jean Piaget Society, Philadelphia, PA, June 1996.
Zheng, M-Y., & Goldin-Meadow, S. The expression of motion events in the absence of a conventional language model. Poster presented at the Fifth International Conference on Theoretical Issues in Sign Language Research, Montreal, Canada, September 1996.
Zheng, M-Y., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Lexical patterns in the expression of motion events in a self-styled gesture. Paper presented at the Boston University Conference on Child Language, Boston, MA, November 1996.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Language and Thought: Putting the World into Words and Gestures. Symposium and paper presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington DC, April 1997.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Discussant for the symposium entitled "Children's Explanations as a Window on Transitions in Development" at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington DC, April 1997.
Gershkoff-Stowe, L. & Goldin-Meadow, S. The role of a communication partner in the creation of a gestural language system. Presented at the 22nd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, November 1997.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Discussant for the symposium entitled "Gesture, Communication, and Joint Attention" at the biennial meeting of ISIS, Atlanta, GA, April 1998.
Iverson, J. I., Tencer, H. L. & Goldin-Meadow, S. Prelinguistic communication in congenitally blind children. Poster presented at biennial meeting of ISIS, Atlanta, GA, April 1998.
Phillips, S., Goldin-Meadow, S. & Miller, P. Narration and socialization: Personal storytelling by deaf children of hearing parents. Paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Piaget Society, Chicago, IL, June 1998.
Singer, M., Kim, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. The communicative functions of gesture in student/teacher interaction. Paper delivered at the annual meeting of the Piaget Society, Chicago, IL, June 1998.
Phillips, S., Goldin-Meadow, S. & Miller, P. Narrative development without linguistic input. Paper delivered at the 23rd Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, November 1998.
Singer, M., Kim, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. The communicative function of gesture during student/teacher interactions. Paper delivered as part of the symposium "Making use of implicit knowledge to teach" at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Albuquerque, NM, April 1999.
Goldin-Meadow, S. The form of gestures in deaf children's invented homesign systems. Paper presented as part of the symposium "Early development of speech and sign production" at the IASCL-VIII International Congress for the Study of Child Language, San Sebastian, Spain, July 1999.
Goldin-Meadow, S., Yalabik, E., & Gershkoff-Stowe, L. Adults gesture in an ergative pattern when asked to talk with their hands. Paper delivered at the 24th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, November 1999.
Iverson J., Tencer H., Lany J., & Goldin-Meadow S. The role of gesture in early language acquisition: a longitudinal study. Poster presented at biennial meeting of ISIS, Bristol, UK, July 2000.
Wieselman Schulman, B., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Discourse structure in a gestural communication system: The robustness of ergativity. Paper delivered at the 25th Annual Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, November 2000.
Goldin-Meadow, S., Nusbaum, H., Kelly, S., & Wagner, S. Gesturing helps us remember. Paper delivered as part of the symposium "Gestures in thinking, speaking and communicating: A developmental perspective" at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, April 2001.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Boundary conditions of language learning. Paper delivered as part of the symposium "From neurons to neighborhoods: The science of early child development" at the biannual meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Minneapolis, MN, April 2001.
Goldin-Meadow, S., Nusbaum, H., Kelly, S., & Wagner, S. Gesturing helps us remember. Paper presented at Orage 2001, Aix-en-Provence, France, June 2001.
Wagner, S. M., Goldin-Meadow, S., Nusbaum, H., & Kelly, S. Cognitive benefits of gesturing. Poster presented at the biennial meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Virginia Beach, VA, October 2001.
Hammond, A., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Words in order: The robustness of non-English sequences in created gesture systems. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Boston University Conference on Language Development, Boston, MA, November 2001.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Using the hands to think without language. Paper presented as part of a symposium "Does the language we speak affect the thoughts we think?" at the annual meeting of the AAAS, Boston, MA, February 2002.
Iverson, J. M., Piry, J., Conrad, L., & Goldin-Meadow, S. The developing relation of gesture and speech when mothers talk to young children. Paper to be presented as part of the symposium "Beyond child-directed speech: Nonverbal aspects of communication when parents talk to young children" at the annual meeting of the International Conference on Infant Studies, Toronto, Canada, April 2002.
Broaders, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Making children gesture: What role does it play in thinking? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Piaget Society, Philadelphia, PA, June 2002.
Singer, M., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Gesture as embodied cognition: Looking at one-on-one math tutorials. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Piaget Society, Philadelphia, PA, June 2002.
Franklin, A., Mylander, C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. The resilience of combinatorial structure at the word level: Morphology in Chinese and American home sign systems. Paper presented at the first Gesture Conference, Austin, TX, June 2002.
Wagner, S. M., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Nusbaum, H. The relationship between gesture and visual-spatial working memory. Paper presented at the first Gesture Conference, Austin, TX, June 2002.
Hammond, A. J. & Goldin-Meadow, S. The robustness of non-English sequences in created gesture systems. Poster presented at the first Gesture Conference, Austin, TX, June 2002.
Broaders, S. & Goldin-Meadow, S. Making children gesture: What role does it play in thinking? Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Piaget Society, Philadelphia, June 2002.
Goldin-Meadow, S. When gesture assumes the full burden of communication. Paper presented as part of the symposium "The function of gestures in language development" at the joint meeting of the Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders (SRCLD) and the International Congress for the Study of Child Language (IASCL), Madison, WI, July 2002.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Transforming gesture into a simple language. Paper presented as part of the symposium "How children create language" at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, Florida, April 2003.
Iverson, J. M., & Goldin-Meadow,S. The bootstrapping function of gesture: Evidence from syntactic and lexical development. Paper presented as part of the symposium "The function of gesture relative to speech: Developmental and cross-linguistic perspectives" at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Tampa, Florida, April 2003
Singer, M. & Goldin-Meadow, S. What happens when teachers’ gestures do not match their speech? Children learn. Paper presented at the third biennial meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Park City, Utah, October 2003.
Broaders, S.C. & Goldin-Meadow, S. Another source to monitor: Interviewer gesture affects children’s recall. Paper presented at the third biennial meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Park City, Utah, October 2003.
Ozcaliskan, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. When mothers do not lead their children by the hand. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Boston University Conference on Language Development, November 2003.
Goldin-Meadow, S., Transforming gesture into a simple language. Paper to be presented as part of a symposium "Language birth" at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Seattle, WA, February 2004.
Wagner, S.M., Suriyakham, L.W., Nusbaum, H., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Small, S. An fMRI study of gesture-speech perception: Hands help brains reduce cognitive load. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, May 2004.
So, Wing Chee, Licciardell, V., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Gesture to language: Origins of grammatical devices. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Chicago, May 2004.
Ozcaliskan, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Gesture is at the cutting edge of early language development. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Boston University Conference on Language Development, November 2004.
Ozcaliskan, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. When the hand says more than the mouth: the role of gesture in children's early constructions. Paper presented at the 31st Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. February 2005.
Wagner, S. M., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Children can use their hands to change their minds. Paper presented as part of the symposium, “Does gesture help children learn?” presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2005.
Ehrlich, S., Levine, S. C., & Goldin-Meadow, So. The effects of training on boys’ and girls’ mental transformation skills and strategies.. Paper presented as part of a symposium, “Early gender differences in spatial skills: How to intervene to improve spatially-based mathematical thinking,” presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Atlanta, Georgia, April 2005.
Schaal, A., Uttal, D., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Levine, S. C. Children’s gestures provide insight into their mental representation of space. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago, May 2005.
Ozyurek, A., Goldin-Meadow, S., Gurcanli, O., & Goksun, T. (2005). Gestural expressions of motion events with or without language. Paper presented as part of a symposium “From Nonlinguistic to Linguistic Representations” at the X International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Berlin, July 2005.
Goldin-Meadow, S., & Ozcaliskan, S. Early gesture-speech combinations as an index of linguistic change. Paper presented as part of a symposium “The Role of Gesture in Language Development” at the X International Congress for the Study of Child Language, Berlin, July 2005.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Gesture as a measure of hidden knowledge. Paper presented as part of a symposium “When knowledge looks different depending on how we tap it,” at the biennial meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, San Diego, October 2005.
Coppola, M., So, W., C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. The seeds of spatial grammar in the manual modality. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Boston University Conference on Language Development, November 2005.
Sauer, E., Levine, S.C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Learning words by hand and mouth in children with unilateral brain injury. Presented at Society for Research on Child Language Development, Madison, Wisconsin, June 2005.
Goldin-Meadow, S. How our hands help us learn. Paper presented as part of the symposium, “Resolving the mind-body problem: The role of nonverbal behaviors in learning,” at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, St. Louis, MO, February 2006.
Schaal, A., Uttal, D., Levine, S.C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Words, gestures and maps: Developmental changes in the integration of spatial information. Paper presented at Conference on Human Development. Louisville, Kentucky, April 2006.
Schaal, A., Uttal, D., Levine, S.C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. A developemental perspective on the influence of gesture on spatial representation. Conference on Human Development. Louisville, Kentucky, April 2006.
Coppola, M., Mylander, C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. How do hearing parents communicate with deaf children? Comparing parents’ speech and gesture across five cultures. Paper to be presented at the 27th annual Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, June 2006.
Ping, R. & Goldin-Meadow, S. Children learn from gestures not grounded in the here-and-now. Paper to be presented at the annual Cognitive Science meeting, Vancouver, Canada, July 2006.
Demir, O., So, W-C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. What’s hidden in the hands? How children use gesture to convey arguments in a motion event. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Boston University Conference on Language Development, November 2006.
Arroyo, M., Levine, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. What counts as effective input for language learning? Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Boston University Conference on Language Development, November 2006.
So, W-C., Demir, E., Ozyurek, A., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Gone from the charts but not from our hearts: Cross-linguistic differences in gestural representation of linguistic arguments. Paper to be presented as part of a symposium, “Cognitive and pragmatic constraints in early child argument representation in speech and gesture,” at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA, April 2006.
Goodrich, W., Sauer, E. A., Iverson, J. M., & Goldin-Meadow, S. From children’s hands to mothers’ mouths. Paper to be presented as part of a symposium, “The role of gesture in early social interactions and development,” at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA, April 2006.
Cook, Susan Wagner, Mitchell, Z., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Gesturing makes learning last. Paper to be presented as part of a symposium, “The role of gesture in the creation of conceptual representations,” at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA, April 2006.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Discussant for the symposium, “Meaning from the hands,” to be presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA, April 2006.
Sauer, E. A., Levine, S. C., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Rowe, M. L. Gesture and vocabulary development in children with early unilateral brain injury. Poster to be presented at the biennial meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Boston, MA, April 2006.
Spaepen, E., Coppola, M., Spelke, E., Carey, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. The relationship between language and numerical cognition: The case of Nicaraguan homesigners. Paper presented at the European Cognitive Science Society, Athens, Greece, May 2007.
Ozyurek, A., Goldin-Meadow, S., Furman, R., Kita, S., & Allen, S. Representing motion events in gestures with and without speech across languages. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Chicago, June 2007.
Ozcaliskan, S., Levine, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Learning to convey linguistic constructions in gesture and speech. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Chicago, June 2007.
Sauer, E., Levine, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Gesture and early language development in children with early unilateral brain injury. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Chicago, June 2007.
Foraker, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Gesture and discourse: How we use our hands to refer back. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Chicago, June 2007.
Uttal, D., Shaal Alman, A., Yang, S-J., Levine, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. The hands show the way: Gesture and the development of spatial communication. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Chicago, June 2007.
Skipper, J., Goldin-Meadow, S., Nusbaum, H., & Small, S. Gestures in the brain’s language. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Chicago, June 2007.
Ozcaliskan, S., Mylander, C., & Goldin-Meadow, S., Building similarity mappings with and without a language model. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Chicago, June 2007.
Franklin, A., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Negation in American homesign sytems. Paper presented at the biennial meeting of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Chicago, June 2007.
Franklin, A., Giannakidou, A., & Goldin-Meadow, S. (Non) Veridicality in home sign systems. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, January 2007.
Goldin-Meadow, S., Gesture, speech, and language. Paper presented as part of the symposium “Language in light of evolution” at the annual meeting of the Linguistic Society of America, Chicago, January 2008.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Thinking with and without language. Organizer of symposium presented at the annual meeting of American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston, February 2008.
Spaepen, E., Coppola, Spelke, E., Carey, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Language and numerical cognition: The case of Nicaraguan homesigners. Paper presented as part of a symposium, “Thinking with and without language,” at the annual meeting of AAAS, Boston, February 2008.
Gentner, D., Ozyurek, A., Goldin-Meadow, S., & Gurcanli, O. Spatial language potentiates spatial cognition: Evidence from deaf Homesigners. Paper presented as part of a symposium, “Thinking with and without language,” at the annual meeting of AAAS, Boston, February 2008.
Ozcaliskan, S., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Sex differences in language first appear in gesture. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, May 2008.
Ping, R. & Goldin-Meadow, S. Gesturing saves cognitive resources for children speaking about present or absent objects. Poster presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago, May 2008.
So, W. C., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Speaking and gesturing under discourse constraints in early chilldhood. Paper presented at the annual convention of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Edinburgh, July 2008.
Iverson, J.M., Cairci, O., Volterra, V., & Goldin-Meadow, S. Learning to talk in a gesture-rich world: Early communication in Italian vs. American children. Paper presented at the annual convention of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Edinburgh, July 2008.
Ozcaliskan, S. & Goldin-Meadow, S. Sex differences first appear in gesture. Paper presented at the annual convention of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Edinburgh, July 2008.
Goldin-Meadow, S., & Rowe, M. Gesture selectively predicts language learning. Paper presented at the annual convention of the International Association for the Study of Child Language, Edinburgh, July 2008.
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Goldin-Meadow, S. Discussant at the Language Acquisition Workshop, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, April 1978.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Recursion in a communication system developed without a conventional language model. Paper delivered at the Conference on Language Acquisition: The state of the art. Philadelphia, PA, May 1978.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Discussant at the Dahlem Workshop on Sign Language and Spoken Language: Biological Constraints on Linguistic Form. West Berlin, Germany, March 1980.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Morphology in a gesture system developed without linguistic input. Conference on the Role of Input in the Language Development of the Child. University of Chicago, IL, November 1980.
Goldin-Meadow, S., Newport, E., & Supalla, T. Co-leader of Special Interest Group "ASL and Gestural Representation" at the 13th Annual Stanford Child Language Research Forum, Stanford University, CA, April 1981.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Language-like communication without a language model. Paper presented as part of the symposium, "Plasticity of Language: Atypical Language Development," at the first annual meeting of the Merrill-Palmer Society, Detroit, MI, May 1982.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Levels of structure in a language developed without a language model. Paper presented at the Social Science Research Council Meeting, "Brain and Behavior: Biosocial Dimensions," Washington DC, May 1985.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Constraints on language learning: Evidence from spontaneous gesture systems. Paper presented as part of a symposium at the Boston Child Language Conference, Boston, MA, October 1986.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Levels of structure in spontaneous communication systems created by Chinese and American deaf children. Paper presented in the Distinguished Speakers Series, Department of Psychology, Cornell University, NY, May 1989.
Goldin-Meadow, S. When does gesture become language? A study of gesture used as a primary communication system by deaf children. Paper presented at a conference sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, "Tools, Language and Intelligence: Evolutionary Implications," Cascais, Portugal, March 1990.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Spontaneous communication systems in Chinese and American deaf children. Invited address presented at the annual meeting of the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May 1990.
Singleton, J., Goldin-Meadow, S. & McNeill, D. The structure of elicited gesture. Presented as part of a symposium on gesture and sign language at the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, IL, August 1991.
Goldin-Meadow, S. A cross-cultural study of spontaneous communication systems. Invited paper presented at a conference sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, "Other minds: Methods in the cross-cultural study of cognitive variation," Nijmegen, the Netherlands, May 1992.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Spontaneous communication systems in Chinese and American deaf children. Address presented to the Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, July 1994.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Leader of the 5th International Workshop of the Japan Society of Developmental Psychology, Tokyo, Japan, July 1994.
Goldin-Meadow, S. An experimentally induced 'gestural creole'. Paper presented at the Conference on Gestures Compared Cross-Linguistically at the 1995 Linguistic Institute, Albuquerque, NM, July 1995.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Paper presented at the Medical Research Council Cognitive Development Unit, London, UK, September 1995.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Paper presented at a Workshop on Language and Thought. Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, UK, September 1995.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Deaf children go beyond their input to invent gestural systems. Paper presented as part of an invited symposium at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Baltimore, MD, February 1996.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Mental processes revealed in the mismatch between speech and gesture. Paper presented at the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May 1996.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Thought before language: The expression of motion events prior to the impact of a conventional language model. Paper presented at an interdisciplinary conference on Language and Thought sponsored by the Hang Seng Centre for Cognitive Studies, Department of Philosophy, University of Sheffield, UK, June 1996.
Goldin-Meadow, S. From Learning to Development. Invited symposium organized for the annual meeting of the American Psychological Society, Washington DC, May 1997.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Language and Thought: Putting the World into Words, Gestures, and Signs. Invited Symposium organized for the annual meeting of the Piaget Society, Los Angeles, CA, June 1997.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Pointing and the transition to two-word speech. Paper presented at an interdisciplinary conference on gesture sponsored by the Cognitive Anthropology Research Group at the Max-Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nigmegen, the Netherlands, June 1997.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Linguistic systems developed by Chinese and American deaf children without the benefit of a language model. Paper presented at the International Neuropsychological Symposium, Camogli, Italy, June 1997.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Paper presented at a conference sponsored by Cognitive Science, "Whither Whorf," Northwestern University, IL, May 1998.
Goldin-Meadow, S. From hand to thought: Gestural communication in deaf and hearing children. Plenary talk presented at the annual meeting of the Piaget Society, Chicago, IL, June 1998.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Language comes naturally to children even when they have no model. Invited talk delivered at a conference sponsored by the New Iberia Research Center, "Evolution of Human Cognitive Specializations: Developmental and Comparative Perspectives," New Iberia, LA, October 1998.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Giving the mind a hand: The role of gesture in cognitive change. Invited talk delivered at the Carnegie Symposium, "Mechanisms of Cognitive Development: Behavioral and Neural Perspectives," Pittsburgh, PA, October 1998.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Nonverbal communication. Invited talk delivered as part of a panel jointly sponsored by APA and the Smithsonian Institute, "How children talk, and how to talk with children," Washington DC, November 1998.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Gesture and cognitive change. Invited presentation to the Committee on the Foundations of Assessment sponsored by the National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council Board on Testing and Assessment, Irvine, CA, May 1999.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Spontaneous Sign Systems Developed by Deaf Children in Two Cultures. Invited presentation at the Institute for Research in Cognitive Science, University of Pennsylvania, PA, November 1999.
Goldin-Meadow, S. How children learn language -- and how it can be taught. Invited address to the Twenty-Second Annual National Institute on the Teaching of Psychology, St. Petersburg, FL, January 2000.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Presentation at the workshop on Emergent and Early Literacy co-sponsored by NIH, ED, and ASHA, Washington DC, September 2000.
Goldin-Meadow, S. An invited paper presented at an interdisciplinary symposium on how language develops, and the extent to which it develops, among people who have no access to a conventional language model, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA, November 2000.
Goldin-Meadow, S. The two faces of gesture. An invited paper presented at the Berkeley Linguistic Society, Berkeley, CA, February 2001.
Goldin-Meadow, S. An invited paper presented as part of the interdisciplinary symposium "The rise of language out of pre-language" at the Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, March 2001.
Goldin-Meadow, S. The role the hand plays in thinking. Paper delivered as part of an invited symposium, "Development of the embodied mind and consciousness," at the annual meeting of the Piaget Society, Berkeley, CA, May 2001.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Giving the mind a hand: The role of gesture in cognitive change. Paper presented at the Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health, London, UK, June 2001.
Goldin-Meadow, S. An invited paper presented at the "Tutorials on Behavioral and Brain Sciences" at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands, August 2001.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Gesture's role in language and cognitive development. Paper presented at a Conference on the Development of Communication and Cognition. New York University, NY, October 2001.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Emergent language: Moving from scientific studies to practice – Critical implications for deaf and heard of hearing babies. Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, November 2001.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Distinguished Visiting Speaker at the University of California, Northridge, CA, April 2002.
Goldin-Meadow, S. How our hands help us think. Invited paper presented at the Midwest Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, May 2002.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Invited paper presented at the American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL, August 2002.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Symbolic communication without a language model: The starting point for language learning. Invited paper presented as part of a conference on symbolic use and symbolic representation. Emory University, October 2002.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Invited plenary speaker at the Boston University Child Language Conference, Boston, MA, November 2002.
Goldin-Meadow, S. What can we learn about language acquisition from gesture? Paper presented as part of a symposium on “New Perspectives on Language Acquisition” at the third biennial meeting of the Cognitive Development Society, Park City, Utah, October 2003.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Paper to be delivered at an international symposium, "The Origins of Language Reconsidered", in Kyoto, Japan, December 2003.
Goldin-Meadow, S. APS William James Distinguished Lecture, to be delivered at the Eastern Psychological Association Meeting, Washington DC, April 2004.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Paper delivered at a workshop, “Gestural communication in nonhuman and human primates,” sponsored by the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany, March 2004.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Gesture’s role in creating and learning language. Plenary paper presented at the 25th anniversary Symposium on Research in Child Language Disorders, Madison, WI, June 2004.
Goldin-Meadow, S. How our hands help us think. Plenary paper presented at the annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, Chicago, August 2004.
Goldin-Meadow, S. The resilient properties of language. Paper presented at “The Roots of Human Sociality” sponsored by the Wenner-Gren Foundation, North Carolina, October 2004.
Goldin-Meadow, S. How our hands help us think. Keynote speaker at the Sixth International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces. State College, PA, October 2004.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Hearing gesture. Paper presented as part of a pre-convention thematic conference on multimodality at the annual convention of the National Communication Association, Chicago, November 2004.
Goldin-Meadow, S. The Nijmegen Lectures, Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, December 2004.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Gesture’s role in language learning and language creation. Invited paper presented at the workshop, “Phylogeny and ontogeny of human communication,” sponsored by the European Science Foundation Eurocores Programme as part of the Origin of Man, Language and Languages Program, Ferrera, Italy, June 2005.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Master Lecture, presented at the American Psychological Society, Washington, D.C., August 2005.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Paper to be presented at a conference on measuring early language sponsored by the Merrill Advanced Studies Center and NICHD, Tempe, Arizona, September 2005.
Goldin-Meadow, S. What children’s hands tell us about the role that linguistic input plays in language learning. Paper presented at a conference on measuring early language sponsored by the Merrill Advanced Studies Center and NICHD, Tempe, Arizona, September 2005.
Goldin-Meadow, S., Language in mind: The role of gestures in thinking, language and instruction. Paper presented at the 13th conference in the Learning & the Brain series, “Motivating the mind: Using brain research to enhance student performance,” Boston, October 2005.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Paper presented as part of a workshop, “The phylo-and ontogenesis of understanding and communication”. Beilefeld, Germany, January 2006.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Gesture’s role in creating and learning language. Plenary presented at the Berkeley Linguistics Society, Berkeley, February 2006.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Plenary presented as part of a conference, “Revolutions in sign language studies: Linguistics, literature, literacy,” sponsored by the Gallaudet University Press Institute, Washington, D.C., March 2006.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Paper presented as part of a symposium on Mind and Language, a satellite event to the 2005-2006 series on American Science sponsored by The Hart Institute for American History at Pomona College, 2006.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Paper presented as part of a workshop series, “Using the Microgenetic Method to Investigate Cognitive Development,” funded by the British Psychological Society and the Economic and Social Research Council, St. Andrews, Scotland, April 2006.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Distinguished Speaker, Duke University, April 2006.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Paper presented at an international conference on language and mind, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 2006.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Plenary to be presented at the seminar on “Deafness: Issues in language, literacy and numeracy,” Harris-Manchester College, University of Oxford, Oxford, June 2006.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Questions about gesture that only brain imaging can answer. Paper presented at a workshop on the neurocognition of gesture processing, Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Leipzig, Germany, July 2006.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Plenary paper presented at the 2005 European Society for Philosophy and Psychology Conference, Belfast, Scotland, August, 2006.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Participant in a workshop on nascent languages sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio, Italy, October 2006.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Paper presented as part of a debate (with Dr. Elena Leiven) sponsored by the newly created Institute of Cognitive Sciences at the University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada, November 2006.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Keynote speaker at the annual brain awareness week, Lake Forest College, November 2006.
Goldin-Meadow, S. How gestures help us learn: Implications for education. Paper to be presented as part of a seminar entitled “Human brain and early education,” Santiago, Chile, March 2007.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Paper to be presented at a workshop entitled "VOCOID" (VOcalisation, COmmunication, Imitation and Deixis in infant and adult human and non-human primates) sponsored by the ESF-Eurocores-OMLL (Origin of Man, Language and Languages) program, Grenoble, France, May 2007.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Plenary address to be presented at an international conference sponsored by the French Association of Cognitive Linguistics on “Typology, Gesture and Sign,” University of Lille, May 2007.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Invited address to be presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Washington, D.C., May 2007.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Gesture as a window onto language and thought. Keynote address presented at the Third International Conference of the International Society for Gesture Studies, Chicago, June 2007.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Paper to be presented at a workshop on Statistical Physics of Social Dynamics: Dynamics in Human Language and Communication, Erice, Sicily, July 2007.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Plenary to be presented at the first international meeting of the Swedish Association for Language and Cognition (SALC), Sweden, December 2007.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Plenary address to be presented at the International Conference on the Evolution of Language, Barcelona, March 2008.
Goldin-Meadow, S. The resilience of language. Invited address presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, Chicago May 2008.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Gesture’s role in creating and learning language. Invited address to be presented at the annual meeting of the American Speech, Language and Hearing Association, Chicago, November 2008.
Goldin-Meadow, S. Invited paper to be presented at a conference, "Multimodality in children: Gestures, emotions, language and cognition," in Toulouse, France, July 2009.
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