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CURRENT DEVELOPMENTS IN GESTURE RESEARCH

This one-day workshop, sponsored by the British Psychological Society was held at the University of Hertfordshire on 30th June 2006. It brought together leading researchers in the gestures field to exchange knowledge, communicate ideas and methods and discuss current developments.

Speakers include:

Sotara Kita (University of Birmingham)
• Semiotic Characteristics of Speech-Accompanying Gestures in Children and Adult's Narrative - powerpoint file 156k
Mingyuan Chu (University of Bristol)
• Internalization of the Motor Strategy in a Mental Rotation Task, as Revealed by Spontaneous Gestures - powerpoint file 556k
Karen Pine (University of Hertfordshire).
• How children’s gestures help them think, speak and learn - powerpoint file 3.1Mb
Marianne Gullberg (Max Plank Institute)
• Handling Discourse in a Second Language: Gestures, L2 Learners and Grammar - acrobat .pdf file 640k
David Leavans (University of Sussex)
Gary Morgan (City University)
Karl Wall (Institute of Education)
• Gestures, groups, observation and measures - powerpoint file 1.9Mb

A second workshop will be held at the University of Manchester on 19th January 2007. For further information, please contact Karen Pine

On 15th and 16th September 2005 the University of Hertfordshire School of Psychology played host to the third in a series of seminars entitled:

USING THE MICROGENETIC METHOD TO INVESTIGATE COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT.

Organised by Dr. Karen Pine (University of Hertfordshire) together with Dr. Emma Flynn (St. Andrews) and Professor Charlie Lewis (Lancaster) the seminar brought together researchers from all over the world. Their common interest is in investigating human change by closely analysing the process of change itself. This has given rise to research that carefully scutinises, for example, the way that children's strategies fluctuate during concept acquisition, or how their hand gestures can reveal when they are on the point of learning.

Keynote speakers (pictured) at this seminar were:

Annette Karmiloff-Smith (Neurocognitive Development Unit, Institute of Child Health, London) who gave a talk entitled 'The Importance of a Microgenetic Approach to the Study of Developmental Disorders' and

Paul Van Geert (The Heymans Institute, Netherland) who talked about 'Descriptive and Statistical tools for Microgenetic Data'. The seminar took place in the convivial setting of the Fielder Conference Centre.

This was the third seminar in the series which are funded jointly by the British Psychological Society and the Economic and Social Research Council. The fourth and final seminar will be held at St. Andrews University, scotland on April 6th and 7th 2006.

Further information from Dr. Karen Pine, School of Psychology.

The Conference on

COGNITIVE DYNAMICS AND THE LANGUAGE SCIENCES.

took place at:

Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge,
United Kingdom

from: September 9th to 11th 2005

Papers from the conference will be published in a special issue of Language Sciences to be edited by Dr. Stephen Cowley, convenor of The Distributed Language Group in the School of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire.

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