Wim Pouw

TL;DR: The authors argued that perceptual and interactive richness may provide opportunities for alleviating cognitive load, and that transfer of learning is not reliant on decontextualized knowledge but may draw on previous sensorimotor experiences of the kind afforded by perceptual or interactive richness of manipulatives.

TL;DR: The results strongly support the idea that more complex metaphorical understandings of social relations are scaffolded onto literal changes in bodily temperature: Being excluded in an online ball tossing game leads to lower finger temperatures, while the negative affect typically experienced after such social exclusion is alleviated after holding a cup of warm tea.

TL;DR: It is suggested that gestures are external physical tools of the cognitive system that replace and support otherwise solely internal cognitive processes, that is gestures provide the Cognitive system with a stable external physical and visual presence that can provide means to think with.

TL;DR: It is concluded that gesture-speech synchrony has a biomechanical basis, which will have implications for the cognitive, ontogenetic, and phylogenetic understanding of multimodal language.

TL;DR: This article provides a tutorial on more efficient methods to quantify the temporal properties of gesture kinematics, and introduces and compares the performance of two video-based motion-tracking methods against a high-performance wired motion- tracking system.