Parents are always eager to hear their child's first words. And as their kids starts to string those words together into phrases, parents may look for the best ways to encourage language development.

Kids asked to physically gesture at math problems are nearly three times more likely than non-gesturers to remember what they’ve learned. In today’s issue of the journal Cognition, a University of ...

Spontaneous gesture can help children learn, whether they use a spoken language or sign language, according to a new report. Previous research by Susan Goldin-Meadow, the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished ...

Lion’s support for gestures—tapping and swiping fingers on a Multi-Touch trackpad—isn’t entirely new. OS X has supported gestures in some form for several years. Even so, many of us still haven’t ...

Puppets are everywhere—on beloved TV shows and movies, in local theatre productions, in classrooms, and even at the doctor’s office. And while most parents may not know this, puppets are also integral ...

This article originally appeared on Fatherly: The first rule of performing cognitive experiments on little kids? It’s probably best to call them something else. Using “experiments” and “little kids” ...

Gesturing helps students develop new ways of understanding mathematics, according to research at the University of Chicago. Scholars have known for a long time that movements help retrieve information ...

What if it was as easy to add a new gesture to Microsoft Kinect as it is to create a keyboard shortcut? Big data startup Kaggle just launched a machine learning competition to develop an algorithm ...