One of the most common human gestures, the pointing finger, appears frequently in Old Master paintings as a guiding cue. However, its influence on viewers' gaze has never been systematically ...

Source: Mary Bates, used with permission. Pointing is a unique human referential signal. Babies develop the ability to understand pointing gestures between the ages of nine and 12 months. But what ...

Dogs possess a 2-year-old child's capacity to understand human pointing gestures, with dogs requiring next to zero learning time to figure out the visual communication, according to two recent studies ...

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This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Starting with naturally occurring (proto-) pointing gestures of two infants, I examine the role and nature of early gesture in language ...

In this painting, the figure seated on the right points at the card-player while laughing, a gesture that underscores his mockery of the young man’s naïveté. The more experienced player, together with ...