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Interesting brain-hemisphere relations to gesture. Expressive gestures, revealing inner emotional states, tend to originate in the right hemisphere. Instrumental gestures, consciously engaged for a purpose, tend to originate in the left hemisphere. https://t.co/ri6mPI6CGF
> Perhaps the most striking finding of all is that, when there is a mismatch between gesture and speech, it is the gesture that carries the day in 100% of cases. > When a mathematical speaker made a mistake verbally, his gesture proceeded with the metaphorical meaning correctly https://t.co/2Wss4MuKws
> "Gestures do not merely *reflect* thought", writes McNeill, "but help *constitute* thought ... Without them thought would be altered or incomplete." https://t.co/KAvyYxiWWN
Source, of course, The Master and his Emissary. Check out my meta-thread for more: https://t.co/qiDmn1gf9e
