Evidence Suggests, Humans Share a Universal , Non-Verbal Language.<br />New research suggests that humans share <br />an innate non-verbal communication system that <br />emerges when people gesture without talking.<br />ScienceAlert reports that researchers studied the <br />gestures of adults and children in an attempt to <br />understand how language impacts the way people think.<br />The research also aimed to determine how <br />humans construct and express ideas, which can <br />be seen when they gesture without speaking.<br />In addition to gestures, this universal system of non-verbal <br />communication includes body language, eye contact <br />and facial expressions, all of which indicate how a person is feeling.<br />The researchers from Georgia State University (GSU)<br />in Atlanta found that language begins influencing <br />nonverbal representations of events at an early age. .<br />The team was led by Şeyda Özçalışkan, a psychological scientist <br />at GSU who studies language development across different <br />types of learners and different language speakers.<br />In the team's latest study, 100 children were asked <br />to describe an action first verbally along with <br />hand gestures, and then again without speaking. .<br />Half of the children were native English speakers, <br />while the other half were native Turkish speakers. .<br />The researchers looked to determine if the children's <br />native language impacted the order in which <br />they chose to express an idea with gestures. .<br />The differences observed between the two <br />groups reportedly disappeared when asked <br />to describe something without speaking.<br />The team's findings were published <br />in the journal 'Language and Cognition.'
