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NEUROSCIENCE AND BIOBEHAVIORAL REVIEWS
Volume 141, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2022.104836
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Beat gestures; Manual gesture; Biomechanics; Locomotor-respiratory coupling; Cross -species comparison; Evolutionary biology; Multimodal prosody; Ontogeny; Phylogeny
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The study demonstrates that vocal-entangled gestures are realized before the representational use of gestures in infants, and are also found in non-human animals such as rats, bats, and birds which evolved even earlier. Therefore, it is believed that the origins of human gesture lie in biomechanics, emerging early in ontogeny and running deep in phylogeny.
Gestures during speaking are typically understood in a representational framework: they represent absent or distal states of affairs by means of pointing, resemblance, or symbolic replacement. However, humans also gesture along with the rhythm of speaking, which is amenable to a non-representational perspective. Such a perspective centers on the phenomenon of vocal-entangled gestures and builds on evidence showing that when an upper limb with a certain mass decelerates/accelerates sufficiently, it yields impulses on the body that cascade in various ways into the respiratory???vocal system. It entails a physical entanglement between body motions, respiration, and vocal activities. It is shown that vocal-entangled gestures are realized in infant vocal???motor babbling before any representational use of gesture develops. Similarly, an overview is given of vocal-entangled processes in non-human animals. They can frequently be found in rats, bats, birds, and a range of other species that developed even earlier in the phylogenetic tree. Thus, the origins of human gesture lie in biomechanics, emerging early in ontogeny and running deep in phylogeny.
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