Chimpanzees and bonobos can communicate with greater flexibility using hand gestures than they can with facial expressions or vocalizations, new research shows. Their use of hand motions to convey ...

Unless you're hard of hearing, or have hearing-impaired friends or relatives, you probably won't understand sign language, which is frustrating for those who rely on it to communicate. Now engineers ...

WFMY News 2 Contributing Editor and body language expert Blanca Cobb helps us understand some of the basics about body language. Can You Fake Sincere Body Language? How do you know when someone's body ...

Two doctoral students in linguistics at the University of Colorado Boulder have created a gesture-based language learning game for iOS devices. The game, called Nano Nano, is currently available for ...

Dr. Shadé Zahrai, PhD, a confidence researcher, explains how "neck flexion" can influence confident body language.

When words fail, gestures can help to get the message across -- especially for people who have a language disorder. An international research team has now shown that listeners attend the gestures of ...

Primatologists have translated gestures used by chimpanzees in the wild to communicate in the first detailed study of its kind. Focusing on non-verbal gestures, researchers spent 18 months in Kenya ...

Language lives as much in our gestures as in our words, a new study shows. Certain languages are richer in gesture, and such unspoken communication is so strong that bilingual individuals often use ...

The state-recognized center for the hearing impaired did add the words “negative connotation” to the two videos depicting a long nose and sidecurls. (JTA) — A Belgian government-recognized ...