Brief training with co-speech gesture lends a hand to word learning in a foreign language

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 313-334

  Kelly, Spencer D ^a   McDevitt, Tara ^a   Esch, Megan ^a  

^a Colgate University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Embodiment; Event related potentials; Familiarity; Gesture; Recollection

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GESTURE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LEARNING STYLE; LINGUISTICS; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VERBAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 59149083899     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690960802365567     Document Type: Article

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