Writing by topic

**articles may be cross-listed**

POINTING AND DEMONSTRATIVES

Cooperrider, Kensy (under revision). Fifteen ways of looking at a pointing gesture. [preprint]

Cooperrider, Kensy, and Kate Mesh (2021). Pointing in gesture and sign. In A. Morgenstern and S. Goldin-Meadow (Eds.), Gesture in language: Development across the lifespan (pp. 21-46). American Psychological Association. [pre-print]

Cooperrider, Kensy, Jordan Fenlon, Jonathan Keane, Diane Brentari, and Susan Goldin-Meadow (2021). How pointing is integrated into language: Evidence from speakers and signers. Frontiers In Communication, 6(567774). DOI: 10.3389/fcomm.2021.567774. [link]

Fenlon, Jordan, Kensy Cooperrider, Jonathan Keane, Diane Brentari, and Susan Goldin-Meadow (2019). Comparing sign language and gesture: Insights from pointing. Glossa, 4:1, 2, 1-26. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gjgl.499. [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy (2018, February). The way humans point isn't as universal as you might think. The Conversation. [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy, James Slotta, and Rafael Núñez (2018). The preference for pointing with the hand is not universal. Cognitive Science, 42(4), 1375-1390. [PDF] [OSF]

Cooperrider, Kensy (2016). The co-organization of demonstratives and pointing gestures. Discourse Processes, 53(8), 632-656. [PDF] [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy (2014). Body-directed gestures: Pointing to the self and beyond. Journal of Pragmatics, 71, 1-16. [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy, and Rafael Núñez (2012). Nose-pointing: Notes on a facial gesture of Papua New Guinea. Gesture, 12(2), 103-130. [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy (2011). Reference in action: Links between pointing and language. Doctoral dissertation, University of California, San Diego. [PDF] [abstract]

SPACE AND TIME

Cooperrider, Kensy, James Slotta, and Rafael Núñez (2022). The ups and downs of space and time: Topography in Yupno language, culture, and cognition. Language and Cognition, 14(1), 131-159. DOI:10.1017/langcog.2021.25 [link]

Marghetis, Tyler*, Melanie McComsey*, and Kensy Cooperrider* (2020). Space in hand and mind: Gesture and spatial frames of reference in bilingual Mexico. Cognitive Science, 44(12), e12920. [PDF] [OSF]

Cooperrider, Kensy, James Slotta, and Rafael Núñez (2017). Uphill and downhill in a flat world: The conceptual topography of the Yupno house. Cognitive Science, 41, 768-799. [PDF] [supplementary materials]

Walker, Esther, and Kensy Cooperrider (2016). The continuity of metaphor: Evidence from temporal gestures. Cognitive Science, 40, 481-495. [PDF]

Cooperrider, Kensy, and Rafael Núñez (2016). How We Make Sense of Time. Scientific American–Mind, 27 (6), 38-43. [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy (2016, October). Framing the World in Terms of “Left” and “Right” is Stranger than You Think. Nautilus Magazine (Blog). [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy, Rafael Núñez, and Eve Sweetser (2014). The conceptualization of time in gesture. In C. Müller, A. Cienki, E. Fricke, S. Ladewig, D. McNeill, and J. Bressem (Eds.) Body-Language-Communication (vol. 2) (pp. 1781-1788). New York: Mouton de Gruyter. [PDF]

Núñez, Rafael, and Kensy Cooperrider (2013). The tangle of space and time in human cognition. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 17(5), 220-229. [PDF]

Núñez, Rafael, Kensy Cooperrider, D Doan, and Jürg Wassmann (2012). Contours of time: Topographic construals of past, present, and future in the Yupno Valley of Papua New Guinea. Cognition, 124(1), 25-35. [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy, and Rafael Núñez (2009). Across time, across the body: Transversal temporal gestures. Gesture, 9(2), 181-206. [PDF]

GESTURE, LANGUAGE, AND COGNITION

Cooperrider, Kensy (under revision). Fifteen ways of looking at a pointing gesture. [preprint]

Cooperrider, Kensy (2020, July). If language began in the hands, why did it ever leave? Aeon. [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy (2019). Universals and diversity in gesture: Research past, present, and future. Gesture, 18(2/3), 210-239. [pre-print] [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy, Natasha Abner, and Susan Goldin-Meadow (2018). The palm-up puzzle: Meanings and origins of a widespread form in gesture and sign. Frontiers in Communication, 3(23). doi: 10.3389/fcomm.2018.00023. [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy (2018, May). From pointing to nodding: Is gesture a universal language? Aeon. [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy (2017). Foreground gesture, background gesture. Gesture, 16(2), 176-202. [PDF]

Cooperrider, Kensy, Dedre Gentner, and Susan Goldin-Meadow (2017). Analogical gestures foster understanding of causal systems. In G. Gunzelmann, A. Howes, T. Tenbrink, & E. Davelaar (Eds.), Proceedings of the 39th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 240–245). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

Cooperrider, Kensy, and Susan Goldin-Meadow (2017). When gesture becomes analogy. Topics in Cognitive Science, 9(3), 719-737. [link] [PDF]

Cooperrider, Kensy, and Susan Goldin-Meadow (2017). Gesture, language, and cognition. In B. Dancygier (Ed.), Cambridge Handbook of Cognitive Linguistics (pp. 118-134). New York: Cambridge University Press. [PDF]

Abner, Natasha, Kensy Cooperrider, and Susan Goldin-Meadow (2015). Gesture for linguists: A handy primer. Language & Linguistics Compass, 9(11), 437-449. [PDF]

Cooperrider, Kensy, Elizabeth Wakefield, and Susan Goldin-Meadow (2015). More than meets the eye: Gesture changes thought, even without visual feedback. In R. Dale, C. Jennings, P. P. Maglio, T. Matlock, D. Noelle, A. Warlaumont, and J. Yoshimi (Eds.), Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 441-446). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

Cooperrider, Kensy and Susan Goldin-Meadow (2014). The role of gesture in analogical problem solving. In P. Bello, M. Guarini, M. McShane, & B. Scassellati (Eds.), Proceedings of the 36th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 2068-2072). Austin, TX: Cognitive Science Society. [PDF]

Cooperrider, Kensy (2011). [Review of Pragmatics and nonverbal communication, by Tim Wharton]. Gesture, 11(1), 81-88. [link] [see also our subsequent exchange]

Cooperrider, Kensy (2009). [Review of Roots of Human Sociality: Culture, Cognition and Interaction, edited by N. J. Enfield and S. C. Levinson]. Gesture, 9(3), 373-380. [link]

YUPNO COMMUNICATION AND COGNITION

Cooperrider, Kensy, and Rafael Núñez (submitted). Gesture in New Guinea.

Cooperrider, Kensy, James Slotta, and Rafael Núñez (2018). The preference for pointing with the hand is not universal. Cognitive Science, 42(4), 1375-1390. [PDF] [OSF]

Cooperrider, Kensy, Tyler Marghetis, and Rafael Núñez (2017). Where does the ordered line come from? Evidence from a culture of Papua New Guinea. Psychological Science, 28(5), 599-608 [link] [OSF]

Núñez, Rafael, Kensy Cooperrider, and Jürg Wassmann (2012). Number concepts without number lines in an indigenous group of Papua New Guinea. PLoS ONE, 7(4), e35662. [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy, and Rafael Núñez (2012). Nose-pointing: Notes on a facial gesture of Papua New Guinea. Gesture, 12(2), 103-130. [link]

DIVERSITY & UNIVERSALS

Cooperrider, Kensy, and Rafael Núñez (submitted). Gesture in New Guinea.

Cooperrider, Kensy (2019). Universals and diversity in gesture: Research past, present, and future. Gesture, 18(2/3), 210-239. [pre-print] [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy and Dedre Gentner (2019). The career of measurement. Cognition. [link] [pre-print] [OSF]

Cooperrider, Kensy (2019, January). What happens to cognitive diversity when everyone is more WEIRD? Aeon. [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy (2018, May). From pointing to nodding: Is gesture a universal language? Aeon. [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy (2018, February). The way humans point isn't as universal as you might think. The Conversation. [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy, James Slotta, and Rafael Núñez (2018). The preference for pointing with the hand is not universal. Cognitive Science, 42(4), 1375-1390. [PDF] [OSF]

Cooperrider, Kensy (2016, October). Framing the World in Terms of “Left” and “Right” is Stranger than You Think. Nautilus Magazine (Blog). [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy, and Rafael Núñez (2016). How We Make Sense of Time. Scientific American–Mind, 27 (6), 38-43. [link]

CONCEPTUAL MAPPINGS

Cooperrider, Kensy, and Susan Goldin-Meadow (2017). When gesture becomes analogy. Topics in Cognitive Science, 9(3), 719-737. [link] [PDF]

Cooperrider, Kensy, Dedre Gentner, and Susan Goldin-Meadow (2016). Spatial analogies pervade complex relational reasoning: Evidence from spontaneous gestures. Cognitive Research: Principles and Implications, 1, 28. doi:10.1186/s41235-016-0024-5. [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy (2014). Body-directed gestures: Pointing to the self and beyond. Journal of Pragmatics, 71, 1-16. [link]

Núñez, Rafael, Kensy Cooperrider, and Jürg Wassmann (2012). Number concepts without number lines in an indigenous group of Papua New Guinea. PLoS ONE, 7(4), e35662. [link]

HISTORY OF IDEAS

Cooperrider, Kensy (2022, April). Handy mnemonics: The five-fingered memory machine. The Public Domain Review. [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy (2021, November). Even rainbows have a dark side. Atlas Obscura. [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy (2020, July). If language began in the hands, why did it ever leave? Aeon. [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy and Dedre Gentner (2019). The career of measurement. Cognition. [link] [pre-print] [OSF]

Cooperrider, Kensy (2018, May). From pointing to nodding: Is gesture a universal language? Aeon. [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy (2017). Making the rounds [Review of The Book of Circles, by Manuel Lima]. Science, 356(8341), 914. [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy (2016, October). Framing the World in Terms of “Left” and “Right” is Stranger than You Think. Nautilus Magazine (Blog). [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy (2016, March). Why Natural Selection Became Darwin’s Fittest Metaphor for Evolution. Nautilus Magazine (Blog). [link]

Cooperrider, Kensy (2009). [Review of Mind in Life: Biology, Phenomenology, and the Sciences of the Mind, by Evan Thompson]. Philosophical Psychology, 22(2), 242-6. [link]