People looking at the works of art are "drawn" to the faces of the pointing characters, say scientists. The post Study finds ...

One of the most common human gestures, the pointing finger, appears frequently in Old Master paintings as a guiding cue. However, its influence on viewers' gaze has never been systematically ...

Pointing makes kids believe you. And it may convey an air of authority to adults, too. That's the finding of a pair of psychologists at the University of Virginia. In a new study probing how young ...

Why do babies point? The reason the behaviour kicks in across all human cultures when children are between 9 and 14 months old hasn’t been entirely clear before, but researchers now believe they have ...