Stories by Susan Goldin-Meadow

Susan Goldin-Meadow is the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago, and has written books and articles on the gestures that we spontaneously use when we talk and how they help us communicate and think.

Cognition

Amanda Gorman, Poet Laureate and Gesturer Laureate

She shows us that gestures are not mere hand-waving. They can convey images that magnify speech or even add new ideas that are not found in the spoken word

March 8, 2021 — Susan Goldin-Meadow | Opinion

Mind

Hands in the Air: How Gesturing Helps Us to Think

Gestures reveal subconscious knowledge and cement new ideas

September 23, 2010 — Susan Goldin-Meadow