My friend Susan does gesture research and works at the McNeill Lab at the University of Chicago. Recently the Chicago Tribune wrote a story about gesture research after an international conference held at Northwestern in Evanston.
"What came first: words or gestures? Researchers aren't 100 percent sure, but they've been asking the question a long time. Gesture studies didn't really emerge, though, until 1941, when Daniel Efron published "Gesture and Environment," a study of how gestures differed among first- and second-generation Italians and Jews in New York City. More recently, work by two University of Chicago professors is carrying the field forward. Professor emeritus David McNeill and professor Susan Goldin-Meadow each lead research labs that bear their names at the university in Hyde Park. Because of their work, Chicago is considered the world's center for gesture studies.
McNeill and Goldin-Meadow were among 200 or so conference presenters and hundreds more attendees catching up on and comparing notes about the latest research."
Susan, although she lives in Hammond, does fascinating research. More later....
"What came first: words or gestures? Researchers aren't 100 percent sure, but they've been asking the question a long time. Gesture studies didn't really emerge, though, until 1941, when Daniel Efron published "Gesture and Environment," a study of how gestures differed among first- and second-generation Italians and Jews in New York City. More recently, work by two University of Chicago professors is carrying the field forward. Professor emeritus David McNeill and professor Susan Goldin-Meadow each lead research labs that bear their names at the university in Hyde Park. Because of their work, Chicago is considered the world's center for gesture studies.
McNeill and Goldin-Meadow were among 200 or so conference presenters and hundreds more attendees catching up on and comparing notes about the latest research."
Susan, although she lives in Hammond, does fascinating research. More later....
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