Remember the last time someone flipped you the bird? Whether or not that single finger was accompanied by spoken obscenities, you knew exactly what it meant. The conversion from movement into meaning ...

When I was in high school, my friend switched sodas on me one day. I thought I was taking a swig of Coca Cola, but he had replaced it with cream soda. I immediately spit it out, thinking it tasted ...

How the Brain Links Gestures, Perception, and Meaning Neuroscience has found that gestures are not merely important as tools of expression but as guides of cognition and perception. Michelle ...