Mnemonic effect of iconic gesture and beat gesture in adults and children: Is meaning in gesture important for memory recall?

Language and Cognitive Processes

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 665-681

  So, Wing Chee ^a   Sim Chen Hui, Colin ^a   Low Wei Shan, Julie ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Gesture; Memory; Semantic meaning

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ARTICLE; BEAT GESTURE; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTURE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; ICONIC GESTURE; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); NORMAL HUMAN; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RHYTHM; SEMANTIC MEMORY; SPEECH; VIDEORECORDING; WORD LIST RECALL;

EID: 84862289307     PISSN: 01690965     EISSN: 14640732     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01690965.2011.573220     Document Type: Article

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