[/caption]GHN News Editor-- Forbes found great leaders talk with their hands. Science tells us why hands are important, and that what we sometimes joke about can really be a strong aid to communication and problem-solving behavior.
While we kid about talking with our hands, and some of us say we couldn't communicate if we didn't move our hands, it turns out research supports the value of doing it. Talking with your hands, they have found, can aid in problem solving.
It's pattern for tracking rather like drawing in the air, helping an individual to visualize a process or a spatial task, according to research published by the American Psychological Association.
Spatial visualization helps an individual track the way a problem can be solved. This is a very important skill in the process of learning. This means the way to mentally figure out strategies.
The value of using the hand was underline by one of those involved in the research, Mingyuan Chu, Ph. D., psychologist, as he said, “Hand
gestures are spontaneous and don’t need to be taught, but they can
improve spatial visualization. From Galileo and Einstein to da
Vinci and Picasso, influential scientific discoveries and artistic
masterpieces might never have been achieved without extraordinary
spatial visualization skills.”
The research findings appear in the February issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.
