Handy Mnemonics: The Five-Fingered Memory Machine, The Public Domain Review
Even rainbows have a dark side, Atlas Obscura
If language began in the hands, why did it ever leave? Aeon
Where do finger names come from? JSTOR Daily
What happens to cognitive diversity when everyone is more WEIRD? Aeon
From pointing to nodding: Is gesture a universal language? Aeon
The way humans point isn’t as universal as you might think. The Conversation
How we make sense of time, Scientific American
Framing the world in terms of “left” and “right” is stranger than you think, Nautilus
Why natural selection became Darwin’s fittest metaphor, Nautilus
My audio essays for the Many Minds podcast have covered topics such as goosebumps, smiles, WEIRDness, footprints, pupillometry, the concept of the Umwelt, Darwin’s “root-brain hypothesis”, and our obsession with human uniqueness.
ACADEMIC ARTICLES AND CHAPTERS
Cooperrider, Kensy (submitted). Time tools. [invited contribution to special issue]
Cooperrider, Kensy (in revision). The design of pointing. [invited chapter for edited volume] [pre-print]
Cooperrider, Kensy, and Rafael Núñez (in press). Gesture in New Guinea. In N. Evans and S. Fedden (Eds.), Oxford Guide to the Papuan Languages. Oxford University Press. [pre-print]
Gawne, Lauren, and Kensy Cooperrider (2024). Emblems: Meaning at the interface of gesture and language. Glossa, 9(1). DOI: https://doi.org/10.16995/glossa.9705. [link]
Cooperrider, Kensy (2023). Fifteen ways of looking at a pointing gesture. Public Journal of Semiotics, 10(2), 40-84. DOI: 10.37693/pjos.2023.10.25120. [link]
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]
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]
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 (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, 191, 103942. [link] [pre-print] [OSF]
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, 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, 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 (2017). Foreground gesture, background gesture. Gesture, 16(2), 176-202. [PDF]
Cooperrider, Kensy, and Susan Goldin-Meadow (2017). When gesture becomes analogy. Topics in Cognitive Science, 9(3), 719-737. [PDF]
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]
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]
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]
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 (2016). The co-organization of demonstratives and pointing gestures. Discourse Processes, 53(8), 632-656. [PDF] [link]
Walker, Esther, and Kensy Cooperrider (2016). The continuity of metaphor: Evidence from temporal gestures. Cognitive Science, 40, 481-495. [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 (2014). Body-directed gestures: Pointing to the self and beyond. Journal of Pragmatics, 71, 1-16. [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]
Cooperrider, Kensy, and Rafael Núñez (2012). Nose-pointing: Notes on a facial gesture of Papua New Guinea. Gesture, 12(2), 103-130. [PDF] [link]
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]
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 (2011). Reference in action: Links between pointing and language. Doctoral dissertation, University of California, San Diego. [PDF] [abstract]
Cooperrider, Kensy, and Rafael Núñez (2009). Across time, across the body: Transversal temporal gestures. Gesture, 9(2), 181-206. [PDF]
BOOK REVIEWS, COMMENTARY, ET CETERA
Cooperrider, Kensy (2024). Human uniqueness and human uniquals. In K. Allado-McDowell, J. Kaganskiy, B. Kames, and C. Mynatt (Eds.) Interspecies futures: A primer (pp. 58-59). LAS Art Foundation. [PDF]
Cooperrider, Kensy (2021). The many meanings of a gestural motif [Introduction to ‘The hand on the breast’ by Julius Lange]. Journal of Art Historiography, 25. [PDF]
Cooperrider, Kensy (2017). Making the rounds [Review of The Book of Circles, by Manuel Lima]. Science, 356(8341), 914. [link]
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]
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]
My Google Scholar profile is here.