A team of researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics recently set out to investigate whether people who are blind gesture like sighted people when talking about the world, and how their unique perceptual experience might influence the way they express different kinds of concepts.
Do we need to see to gesture? How blind people express concepts without vision
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