Does the hand reflect implicit knowledge? Yes and no

Gesture does not have a fixed position in the Dienes & Perner framework. It s status depends on the way knowledge is expressed. Knowledge reflected in gesture can be fully implicit (neither factuality nor predication is explic it) if the goal is simply to move a pointing hand to a target. Knowledge re flected in gesture can be explicit (both factuality and predication are exp licit) if the goal is to indicate an object. However, gesture is not restri cted to these two extreme positions. When gestures are unconscious accompan iments to speech and represent information that is distinct from speech, th e knowledge they convey is factuality-implicit but predication-explicit.