Comments on: Meaning and Memory in Gesture http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/05/meaning-and-memory-in-gesture.php Understand your mind with the science of psychology - Mon, 04 May 2009 10:30:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Amy http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/05/meaning-and-memory-in-gesture.php/comment-page-1#comment-25718 Amy Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:46:57 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2007/05/meaning-and-memory-in-gesture.php#comment-25718 I learned alot.. I learned alot..

]]> By: Amy http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/05/meaning-and-memory-in-gesture.php/comment-page-1#comment-25717 Amy Fri, 17 Apr 2009 16:46:41 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2007/05/meaning-and-memory-in-gesture.php#comment-25717 Very helpful(= Very helpful(=

]]> By: Chris http://www.spring.org.uk/2007/05/meaning-and-memory-in-gesture.php/comment-page-1#comment-19916 Chris Fri, 11 May 2007 18:13:00 +0000 http://spring.org.uk/2007/05/meaning-and-memory-in-gesture.php#comment-19916 Meaningful or mnemonic, gestures aid performative communication. When storytellers captivate their audience with wild motions, the narrative explodes with animation. Those gesticulations tap into kinetic memory for the performer, but also encode them into the audience -- the punchlines felt. It's easier to remember a story that appears alive. So hands seem to work both ways: aid recall in the communicator, embed meaning for the communicated. Either way, it's all about remembering the presented information.<br /><br />I wonder how gestures operate without a prepackaged story to tell or information to convey? Just spontaneous generation, improvisation. Not recall. Do we wash our hands in the stream of consciousness? Do we motion to ourselves, alone, just to remember? Meaningful or mnemonic, gestures aid performative communication. When storytellers captivate their audience with wild motions, the narrative explodes with animation. Those gesticulations tap into kinetic memory for the performer, but also encode them into the audience -- the punchlines felt. It's easier to remember a story that appears alive. So hands seem to work both ways: aid recall in the communicator, embed meaning for the communicated. Either way, it's all about remembering the presented information.

I wonder how gestures operate without a prepackaged story to tell or information to convey? Just spontaneous generation, improvisation. Not recall. Do we wash our hands in the stream of consciousness? Do we motion to ourselves, alone, just to remember?

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