Gestures are another vector in the hand-tongue highway. They are so interesting and I looked into it in a Cog Sci class. My writeup was so subpar compared to th

Gestures are another vector in the hand-tongue highway. They are so interesting and I looked into it in a Cog Sci class. My writeup was so subpar compared to the research I did. I need to get back into it. Ended up being my favorite class as there was so much I did not know. "“Adult speakers who are blind from birth also gesture when they talk, and these gestures resemble the gestures of sighted adults speaking the same language. This is quite interesting, since blind speakers cannot be learning these language-specific gestures by watching other speakers gesture,” [1] Similar article [2] A more 'official' paper: "People use gestures when they talk, but is this behaviour learned from watching others move their hands when talking? Individuals who are blind from birth never see such gestures and so have no model for gesturing. But here we show that congenitally blind speakers gesture despite their lack of a visual model, even when they speak to a blind listener. Gestures therefore require neither a model nor an observant partner." [3] There are a lot of dance styles in India where gestures (hand/face/leg) are the principal means of story communication. [1] https://news.uchicago.edu/story/blind-adults-gestures-resemble-those-other-native-speakers#:~:text=New%20research%20shows%20that%20blind,make%20gestures%20in%20similar%20ways.&text=When%20people%20talk%2C%20how%20they,on%20the%20language%20they%20speak https://news.uchicago.edu/story/blind-adults-gestures-resemb.... [2] https://www.thecut.com/2016/09/blind-people-gesture-like-sighted-people.html https://www.thecut.com/2016/09/blind-people-gesture-like-sig... [3] https://www.nature.com/articles/24300 https://www.nature.com/articles/24300