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Talking With Your Hands Makes You Learn Things Faster


"Gesticulation isn’t divorced from speech. It’s completely tied to your speech,” Goldin-Meadow tells Science of Us. “It’s part of your cognition. It’s not just mindless hand-waving.” Researchers haven’t yet pinned down exactly how this connection works, but Goldin-Meadow believes part of it is that gestures reduce what psychologists call “cognitive load,” or the amount of mental energy you’re expending to keep things in your working memory.

Talking With Your Hands Makes You Learn Faster -- Science of Us

http://nymag.com/scienceofus/2016/07/talking-with-your-hands-makes-you-learn-things-faster.html

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Talking With Your Hands Makes You Learn Faster -- Science of Us

I wonder if all learning benefits from hand gestures or just some learning.

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