PR-5 Projecting Hands

Visual Description

The arms gesticulate outward and forward, in chopping motions with decisive stops. The arms fill the space in front of them and assert onto the environment. The gesture will often come to a conclusive, angular halt and be accompanied by an emphasis in articulation.

PR-5 Projecting Hands

Cognitive Etiology

Research has shown that parts of the brain associated with speech and motor functioning are both active during gesticulation.^[1] Language processing and motor system activation are bidirectionally interconnected, such that speech begets gestures in an automatic fashion.^[2] As Je is the Articulator function, the production of hand gestures is therefore an inevitable result of its information metabolism.

When Projecting Hands is occurring, the person is outwardly embodying the general outlines of their ideas using gesture shapes and vectors. These vectors not only help with communication so that others understand the contents of their speech, but they also assist in the very production of the words themselves, as the brain generates its cognitive syntax more easily when activating the limbs in a way that roughly reflects the "shape" of the action-words being strung into sentences.

1. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37971416/[↩]
2. https://econtent.hogrefe.com/doi/10.1027/1618-3169/a000031[↩]