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What would conversation be like without hand
gestures? Difficult, and in countries like Italy,
perhaps unimaginable. It was her travels to Italy,
in fact, that inspired Jana Iverson, a psychologist
at the University of Chicago, to see whether we
learn gesturing from others or if it is an innate part
of speaking. She asked 24 children, 12 of whom
had been blind from birth, to compare the
amounts of water in two identical glasses, then
compare them again after the water in one glass
was poured into a dish. (The blind children
explored the water and receptacles with their
hands.) Asked how they arrived at an answer,
both blind and sighted children used the same
gestures as they spoke, including cupping one
hand into a C shape and imitating the act of
pouring. Blind children gestured even when
talking to an experimenter they knew was blind.
The fact that someone who had never seen
gestures before would gesture", says Iverson,
"even to a partner who they know can't see,
suggests that gesturing and speaking are tightly
connected in some very fundamental way in our
brains".