gestural communication

When he becomes a sculpture, both disciplines are engaged in subtleties of gestural communication.

Additionally, every parent of deaf children has own signs called home signs to make a gestural communication.

Such is the much-lauded universality of gestural communication.

The gestural communication of apes and monkeys.

Male western gorillas display a wide range of both vocal and gestural communications when threatened by an opponent.

Home sign (or kitchen sign) is the gestural communication system developed by a deaf child who lacks input from a language model in the family.

Stalking large animals, either solitary beasts or herds, is dangerous; some gestural communication among the hunters is necessary.

Insights to language from the study of gesture: A review of research on the gestural communication of non-signing deaf people.

This led them to argue that the repertoire of available gesture types that can be employed in natural chimpanzee gestural communication is species-typical.

Notable examples include Japanese macaque potato washing, Chimpanzee tool use, and Chimpanzee gestural communication.

"Hand/mouth goal-directed action representations" is another way of saying "gestural communication", "gestural language", or "communication through body language."

Unlike deaf sign languages, they are better understood as forms of symbolic gestural communication rather than languages, and some writers have preferred to describe them as sign lexicons.

Two small studies have reported short-term improvement in verbal and gestural communication skills of children with autism from a week's work of daily sessions; no significant effects on behavior problems were observed.

A variant of this anecdote is cited by the canonist Martin de Azpilcueta to illustrate his doctrine of a mixed speech (oratoria mixta) combining speech and gestural communication.

In many ways, his pioneering observations and research laid the foundation and set the precedent for many contemporary research topics in psychology and primatology including nonverbal and gestural communication, theory of mind and behavioral economics.

Critics of gestural theory note that it is difficult to name serious reasons why the initial pitch-based vocal communication (which is present in primates) would be abandoned in favour of the much less effective non-vocal, gestural communication.

Although discussion of sign languages and the lives of deaf people is extremely rare in the history of South Asian literature, there are a few references to deaf people and gestural communication in texts dating from antiquity.

Since handling of tools and weapons requires precise manipulation of the fingers and thumb, a dextral bias in hand preference for wielding these implements might have predisposed our earliest ancestors towards the use of the right hand for gestural communication.