Depictive gestures as evidence for dynamic mental imagery in four types of student reasoning

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 883, Issue , 2007, Pages 89-92

  Stephens, A Lynn ^a   Clement, John J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

Analogies; Imagery; Imagistic simulation; Modeling; Models; Pedagogy

Indexed keywords

EID: 77957987039     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2508698     Document Type: Conference Paper

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