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Susan Goldin-Meadow is the Beardsley Ruml Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology at the University of Chicago. Her research focuses on the interplay between gesture, language, and cognition, particularly in deaf children who invent gesture systems (homoesign) and how nonverbal communication shapes thinking. She has held leadership roles including Editor of Language Learning and Development, President of the Cognitive Development Society, and current President of the International Society for Gesture Studies. Her work bridges developmental psychology, linguistics, and neuroscience.
Education: Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania. Her research lab investigates gesture's role in learning, communication, and language creation. She has authored influential books such as The Resilience of Language (2003) and Hearing Gesture (2003), and her findings highlight how gesture reveals and transforms mental processes.
Key contributions include discovering that deaf children without language models develop structured gesture systems and that gestures in hearing individuals convey unspoken cognitive processes. Awards include election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005) and a 2019 best paper award in Language.
Teaching includes courses on Language Development and Nonverbal Communication. Her lab's work appears in Psychological Science, Cognitive Science, and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Current projects explore gesture's impact on math learning, cross-cultural gesture systems, and the neural bases of gesture-language interactions.
