Gesturing makes learning last

Cognition

Volumn 106, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 1047-1058

  Cook, Susan Wagner ^a   Mitchell, Zachary ^b   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive development; Embodied cognition; Gesture; Instruction; Learning; Mathematics; Problem solving

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FOLLOW UP; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MATHEMATICS; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CHILD; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE;

EID: 37249041941     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2007.04.010     Document Type: Article

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