Embodied communication: Speakers' gestures affect listeners' actions

Cognition

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 98-104

  Cook, Susan Wagner ^a   Tanenhaus, Michael K ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Embodied cognition; Hand gesture; Nonverbal behavior; Problem solving; Tower of Hanoi

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; NORMAL HUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADULT; COGNITION; GESTURES; HUMANS; PROBLEM SOLVING; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; SPEECH; SPEECH PERCEPTION;

EID: 70349777287     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2009.06.006     Document Type: Article

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