Researchers hope the study's findings on goats encourage people to learn more about the intelligence and awareness of farm animals Goats get it! According to a new study in the journal Frontiers in ...

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 ...

Pointing makes kids believe you. And it may convey an air of authority to adults, too. That's the finding of a pair of psychologists at the University of Virginia. In a new study probing how young ...

For example, the word for turning also means turning a limb in question on the joint, but doing the modern thumbs-down ...

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 ...

Think of the way hands form a fist for emphasis; spread out, palms up, in confusion; point out a direction to take or the size of a fish. Everyone talks with their hands. But few realize how much they ...

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 ...