A word in the hand: Action, gesture and mental representation in humans and non-human primates

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 367, Issue 1585, 2012, Pages 129-143

  Cartmill, Erica A ^a   Beilock, Sian ^a   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Embodied cognition; Evolution of language; Gesture; Mental representation; Mirror neurons; Primates

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; COMMUNICATION BEHAVIOR; EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY; HUMAN BEHAVIOR; LANGUAGE; LIMB; MOVEMENT; NEUROLOGY; PRIMATE;

HAPLORHINI; PRIMATES;

EID: 81555195426     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: 14712970     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2011.0162     Document Type: Review

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