Mats Andrén

My research concerns children's gestures: what they are like, how they are used, and how this changes over time in development. My background is within cognitive science, communication sciences, and computer science.

Research

• Present projects
• Audio description and multimodalityBeing able to experience visual scenes, pictures, gestures and facial expressions is something that we take for granted. Visually impaired audiences, ...
• Gestures that involve handling of objects (research leader)The project investigates communicative acts that involve handling of physical objects, e.g. toys in parent-child interaction. These actions are called ...
• Centre for Cognitive Semiotics (CCS)In order to understand the specificity of human beings, we must consider the biological as well as historical process by means of which we were separated ...
• Completed projects
• Precursors of Sign Use in Intersubjectivity and Imitation (PSUII)In earlier work we have explored the human capacity to engage in sign use, comparing different semiotic resources with respect to their developmental ...
• Children's gesturesMy work regards gestures in children between 18–30 months. Previous research on child gesture mostly concern the period from 9–20 months, but gestures ...

• About my research

• Publications

Teaching

• Teaching VT 2013

• LINN22 Linguistics: Metalinguistics - Language as an Object of Knowledge

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