Learning from text benefits from enactment

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 42, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1026-1037

  Cutica, Ilaria ^a   Ianì, Francesco ^b   Bucciarelli, Monica ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Enactment; Gesture production; Learning; Mental model

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; RECALL;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; READING;

EID: 84907706996     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: 15325946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/s13421-014-0417-y     Document Type: Article

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