When words fail, gestures can help to get the message across -- especially for people who have a language disorder. An international research team has now shown that listeners attend the gestures of ...

Gesture communication is increasingly recognised as a vital compensatory strategy in aphasia rehabilitation. Aphasia, most commonly arising from stroke-related brain injuries, impairs verbal ...

Chimpanzees and bonobos can communicate with greater flexibility using hand gestures than they can with facial expressions or vocalizations, new research shows. Their use of hand motions to convey ...

When words fail, gestures can help to get the message across - especially for people who have a language disorder. An international research team has now shown that listeners attend the gestures of ...

Young children instinctively use a "language-like" structure to communicate through gestures, according to research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological ...

This post was co-authored with Dr. Sirada Rochanavibhata. This week, media is once again abuzz with speculations about Meghan Markle’s body language. Following the release of the Netflix documentary ...

No, you won’t look nervous by incorporating more hand movements. In fact, they’ll probably make your audience trust you more. Author Vanessa Edwards and her team watched thousands of hours of TED ...

Chimpanzees and humans are even more alike than we knew. In a new study published today, scientists provide evidence that chimpanzees regularly communicate by gesturing to others in a rapid ...

A study reveals that African elephants communicate using intentional gestures to ask for food, similar to ape communication.

Research reveals that elephants use intentional gestures to communicate. A study in Zimbabwe observed elephants gesturing to request apples. They only ...

People who suffer from an acquired language disorder due to a brain injury – for example after a stroke, traumatic brain injury or brain tumor – often have difficulties communicating with others.