Cognitive change in learning from text: Gesturing enhances the construction of the text mental model

Journal of Cognitive Psychology

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 201-209

  Cutica, Ilaria ^a   Bucciarelli, Monica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gestures; Learning; Mental models; Text comprehension

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; LITERATURE; MALE; MEMORY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; HAND MOVEMENT; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; RECALL; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; STUDY SKILLS; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 84876117641     PISSN: 20445911     EISSN: 2044592X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/20445911.2012.743987     Document Type: Article

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