diff --git a/Project.toml b/Project.toml
index 5b0923ad7..2985a7e02 100644
--- a/Project.toml
+++ b/Project.toml
@@ -3,6 +3,7 @@ uuid = "872c559c-99b0-510c-b3b7-b6c96a88d5cd"
 version = "0.7.14"
 
 [deps]
+BenchmarkTools = "6e4b80f9-dd63-53aa-95a3-0cdb28fa8baf"
 ChainRulesCore = "d360d2e6-b24c-11e9-a2a3-2a2ae2dbcce4"
 Compat = "34da2185-b29b-5c13-b0c7-acf172513d20"
 LinearAlgebra = "37e2e46d-f89d-539d-b4ee-838fcccc9c8e"
diff --git a/src/gather.jl b/src/gather.jl
index e72d7905a..2229b455f 100644
--- a/src/gather.jl
+++ b/src/gather.jl
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ export gather, gather!
 Reverse operation of scatter. Gathers data from source `src` 
 and writes it in destination `dst` according to the index
 array `idx`.
-For each position `k` in `idx`, assign values to `dst` according to
+For each `k` in `CartesianIndices(idx)`, assign values to `dst` according to
 
-    dst[:, ... , k...] .= src[:, ... , idx[k]...]
+    dst[:, ... , k] .= src[:, ... , idx[k]...]
 
 Notice that if `idx` is a vector containing integers,
 and both `dst` and `src` are matrices, previous 
@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ expression simplifies to
 
 and `k` will range over `1:length(idx)`. 
 
-Notice that elements of `idx` may be repeated. A single `src` column
+The elements of `idx` may be repeated. A single `src` column
 can end up being copied into zero, one, or multiple `dst` columns.
 
 # Arguments
@@ -29,51 +29,34 @@ can end up being copied into zero, one, or multiple `dst` columns.
 """
 function gather!(dst::AbstractArray{Tdst,Ndst}, 
                  src::AbstractArray{Tsrc,Nsrc}, 
-                 idx::AbstractArray{NTuple{M,Int}, Nidx}) where {Tdst,Tsrc,Ndst,Nsrc,Nidx,M}
-    
-    # TODO: use M = typelength(eltype(idx)) to merge the integer method into this?
-    Ndst - Nidx == Nsrc - M  || throw(ArgumentError(""))
-    size(dst)[1:Ndst-Nidx] ==  size(src)[1:Ndst-Nidx] || throw(ArgumentError(""))
-    size(dst)[Ndst-Nidx+1:end] ==  size(idx) || throw(ArgumentError(""))
-    
-    coldst = ntuple(i -> Colon(), Ndst - Nidx)
-    colsrc = ntuple(i -> Colon(), Nsrc - M)
-    for k in CartesianIndices(idx)
-        view(dst, coldst..., Tuple(k)...) .= view(src, colsrc..., idx[k]...)
-    end
-    return dst
-end
+                 idx::AbstractArray{Tidx, Nidx}) where 
+                    {Tdst, Tsrc, Ndst, Nsrc, Nidx, Tidx <: IntOrIntTuple}
+
+    M = typelength(Tidx)
+    Ndst - Nidx == Nsrc - M || throw(ArgumentError("Incompatible input shapes."))
+    size(dst)[1:Ndst-Nidx] == size(src)[1:Ndst-Nidx] || throw(ArgumentError("Incompatible input shapes."))
+    size(dst)[Ndst-Nidx+1:end] == size(idx) || throw(ArgumentError("Incompatible input shapes."))
 
-function gather!(dst::AbstractArray{Tdst,Ndst}, 
-                src::AbstractArray{Tsrc,Nsrc}, 
-                idx::AbstractArray{<:Integer, Nidx}) where {Tdst,Tsrc,Ndst,Nsrc,Nidx}
-    
-    Ndst - Nidx == Nsrc - 1  || throw(ArgumentError(""))
-    size(dst)[1:Ndst-Nidx] ==  size(src)[1:Ndst-Nidx] || throw(ArgumentError(""))
-    size(dst)[Ndst-Nidx+1:end] ==  size(idx) || throw(ArgumentError(""))  
     coldst = ntuple(i -> Colon(), Ndst - Nidx)
-    colsrc = ntuple(i -> Colon(), Nsrc - 1)
+    colsrc = ntuple(i -> Colon(), Nsrc - M)
     for k in CartesianIndices(idx)
-        view(dst, coldst..., k) .= view(src, colsrc..., idx[k])
+        view(dst, coldst..., k) .= view(src, colsrc..., idx[k]...)
     end
     return dst
 end
 
-
 """
     gather(src, idx)
 
 Non-mutating version of [`gather!`](@ref).
 """
 function gather(src::AbstractArray{Tsrc, Nsrc}, 
-                idx::AbstractArray{<:IntOrIntTuple, Nidx}) where {Tsrc, Nsrc, Nidx}
-    # Ndst - Nidx == Nsrc - M  || throw(ArgumentError(""))
-    # size(dst)[1:Ndst-Nidx] ==  size(src)[1:Ndst-Nidx] || throw(ArgumentError(""))
-    # size(dst)[Ndst-Nidx+1:end] ==  size(idx) || throw(ArgumentError(""))
-  
-    M = typelength(eltype(idx)) 
+                idx::AbstractArray{Tidx, Nidx}) where 
+                    {Tsrc, Nsrc, Nidx, Tidx<:IntOrIntTuple}
+
+    M = typelength(Tidx) 
     dstsize = (size(src)[1:Nsrc-M]..., size(idx)...)
-    dst = similar(src, eltype(src), dstsize)
+    dst = similar(src, Tsrc, dstsize)
     return gather!(dst, src, idx)
 end
 
diff --git a/test/gather.jl b/test/gather.jl
index 5635078e4..81d5cdeed 100644
--- a/test/gather.jl
+++ b/test/gather.jl
@@ -80,4 +80,15 @@ end
     @test y isa Array{T,1}
     @test size(y) == (size(src)[1:Nsrc-M]..., size(index)...) 
     @test y == output
+
+    ## 3d src, 2d index of 2-tuples -> 3d output
+    n1, nsrc, nidx = 2, 3, 6
+    src = rand(Float32, n1, nsrc, nsrc)
+    index = [(rand(1:nsrc), rand(1:nsrc)) for i=1:nidx, j=1:nidx]
+    
+    y = gather(src, index)
+    M = NNlib.typelength(eltype(index))
+    Nsrc = ndims(src)
+    @test y isa Array{T,3}
+    @test size(y) == (size(src)[1:Nsrc-M]..., size(index)...) 
 end