Probing the mental representation of gesture: Is handwaving spatial?

Journal of Memory and Language

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 395-407

  Wagner, Susan M ^a   Nusbaum, Howard ^a   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Gesture; Spatial representation; Working memory

Indexed keywords

EID: 2442463442     PISSN: 0749596X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jml.2004.01.002     Document Type: Article

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