Making Children Gesture Brings Out Implicit Knowledge and Leads to Learning

Journal of Experimental Psychology: General

Volumn 136, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 539-550

  Broaders, Sara C ^a   Cook, Susan Wagner ^a   Mitchell, Zachary ^a   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

embodied cognition; gesture; implicit knowledge; learning; mathematical equivalence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS;

CHILD; COGNITION; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MATHEMATICS;

EID: 36248975255     PISSN: 00963445     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0096-3445.136.4.539     Document Type: Article

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