<ul><li>Gestures are closely linked to speech.</li><li>People seem to gesture naturally and even blind people who haven't seen anyone gesturing, are able to do so.</li><li>Our words and gestures closely align and give a glimpse of the inner workings of our mind.</li></ul>

Gestures and Speech

Communication

<ul><li>Just as speech puts our thoughts into words. pir gestures put our thoughts into our <b>hands</b>.</li><li>Gestures aid our thinking and many problem solving tasks are done in a better way through the help of gestures.</li></ul>

Gestures Aid Thinking

In the early 1970s, David McNeill, a psychology professor at the University of Chicago, was giving a talk in a Paris lecture hall when something odd caught his eye. There was a woman in the back of the room moving her arms in a way that seemed to convey exactly what he was saying.

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