The role of gestures in mental animation

Spatial Cognition and Computation

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 333-356

  Hegarty, Mary ^a   Mayer, Sarah ^a   Kriz, Sarah ^a   Keehner, Madeleine ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Expression; Gestures; Inference; Spatial reasoning

Indexed keywords

EXPRESSION; GESTURES; INFERENCE; INFERENCE PROCESS; MECHANICAL REASONING; SPATIAL REASONING; SPATIAL THINKING; THOUGHT PROCESS;

ANIMATION; EXPERIMENTS;

PROBLEM SOLVING;

EID: 41549115906     PISSN: 13875868     EISSN: 15427633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1207/s15427633scc0504_3     Document Type: Article

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