Journal article
A Career Dedicated to Gesture, Language, Learning, and Cognition: Susan Goldin-Meadow, 2021 Recipient of the Rumelhart Prize
Topics in cognitive science, Vol.17(3), pp.430-442
07/2025
DOI: 10.1111/tops.12788
PMID: 39933023
Abstract
Susan Goldin-Meadow is the 2021 Recipient of the Rumelhart Prize. Goldin-Meadow's body of research addresses the roles of gesture in language creation, communication, learning, and cognition. In one major strand of her research, Goldin-Meadow has studied gestures in children who are not exposed to any structured language input, specifically, deaf children of hearing parents who do not expose their children to sign language. These children create a highly structured, language-like system with their hands-a homesign. In another major strand, Goldin-Meadow has focused on the gestures that people produce along with speech. She has examined how gestures contribute to producing and comprehending language at the moment of speaking or signing, how gestures contribute to learning language and to learning other concepts and skills, and how gestures may actually constitute and change people's thinking. This topic collection is made up of papers that represent and extend these strands of Goldin-Meadow's work. This introductory article provides a brief biography of Goldin-Meadow, and it highlights ways in which the contributions to the topic collection exemplify several notable characteristics of Goldin-Meadow's body of work, including (1) a focus on multiple timescales of behavior and behavior change; (2) use of diverse methods, approaches, and populations; and (3) considerations of equity and inclusion, both in research and in educational and clinical practice.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- A Career Dedicated to Gesture, Language, Learning, and Cognition: Susan Goldin-Meadow, 2021 Recipient of the Rumelhart Prize
- Creators
- Martha Wagner Alibali - University of Wisconsin–MadisonSusan Wagner Cook - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Topics in cognitive science, Vol.17(3), pp.430-442
- DOI
- 10.1111/tops.12788
- PMID
- 39933023
- NLM abbreviation
- Top Cogn Sci
- ISSN
- 1756-8757
- eISSN
- 1756-8765
- Publisher
- WILEY
- Language
- English
- Electronic publication date
- 02/11/2025
- Date published
- 07/2025
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute
- Record Identifier
- 9984790968702771
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