Gestures accompanying verbal route directions: Do they point to a new avenue for examining spatial representations?

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 259-268

  Allen, Gary L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gestures; Route directions; Spatial cognition; Wayfinding

Indexed keywords

GESTURES; ICONIC GESTURES; RELATIVE FREQUENCIES; ROUTE DIRECTIONS; SPATIAL COGNITION; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS; UNIVERSITY STUDENTS; WAY-FINDING;

USER INTERFACES;

EID: 22144479253     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15427633scc0304_1     Document Type: Article

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