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    "abstract": "People gesture when they talk, and often gestures carry information about their thoughts. Beatgestures, however, which are simple flicks of the hand, are widely believed to carry no semanticinformation. Here we challenge this belief with a quantitative analysis of more than 5000spontaneous co-speech gestures. Participants told stories suggesting literal or metaphoricalmotion in one of four directions: up, down, left, or right. They produced beats in the directionimplied by the story, much more frequently than would be expected by chance, not only duringliteral spatial language (my rocket went higher), but also when participants used spatialmetaphors for abstract motion (my grades went higher), and when they expressed the sameabstract ideas without using any spatial language (my grades got better). Beats constituted themajority (76%) of the gestures that storytellers produced. Beat gestures are pervasive andmeaningful, and reveal the spatial scaffolding of abstract thoughts.",
    "language": "eng",
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    "section": "Publication-based-Talks",
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    "date_submitted": null,
    "date_accepted": null,
    "date_published": "2018-01-01T18:00:00Z",
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