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Thinking with Your Hands: The Surprising Science Behind How Gestures Shape Our Thoughts
Written by Susan Goldin-Meadow
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This sweeping and ambitious book promises to transform our understanding of language and communication, arguing that gesture is essential to how we think.
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Susan Goldin-Meadow
Susan Goldin-Meadow is the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor in the department of psychology and on the Committee on Human Development, both at the University of Chicago. The winner of the 2021 Rumelhart Prize in cognitive science, she is a member of the National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She lives in Chicago.
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