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Cognitive Science Colloquium - Susan Goldin-Meadow / The mind hidden in our hands

Susan Goldin Meadow

Cognitive Science Colloquium - Susan Goldin-Meadow / The mind hidden in our hands

Linguistics | Philosophy Thursday, September 11, 2025 3:30 pm - 5:30 pm

Thursday September 11, we welcome Susan Goldin-Meadow from the University of Chicago for the first CogSci Colloquium of the new school year. Professor Goldin-Meadow will share some of her lab's extensive work on non-verbal, gestural communication. Her talk, "The mind hidden in our hands," is abstracted below.

Gesture is versatile in form and function.  Under certain circumstances, gesture can substitute for speech, and when it does, it embodies the properties of language that children themselves bring to language learning, and underscores the resilience of language itself. Under other circumstances, gesture can form a fully integrated system with speech.  When it does, it both predicts and promotes learning, and underscores the resilience of gesture in thinking. Together, these lines of research show how much of our minds is hidden in our hands.

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Thursday September 11, we welcome Susan Goldin-Meadow from the University of Chicago for the first CogSci Colloquium of the new school year. Professor Goldin-Meadow will share some of her lab's extensive work on non-verbal, gestural communication. Her talk, "The mind hidden in our hands," is abstracted below.

Gesture is versatile in form and function.  Under certain circumstances, gesture can substitute for speech, and when it does, it embodies the properties of language that children themselves bring to language learning, and underscores the resilience of language itself. Under other circumstances, gesture can form a fully integrated system with speech.  When it does, it both predicts and promotes learning, and underscores the resilience of gesture in thinking. Together, these lines of research show how much of our minds is hidden in our hands.

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