Producing gestures facilitates route learning

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2014, Pages

  So, Wing Chee ^a   Ching, Terence Han Wei ^b   Lim, Phoebe Elizabeth ^b   Cheng, Xiaoqin ^b   Ip, Kit Yee ^a  

^a CHINESE UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; DRAWING; FEMALE; GESTURE; HAND MOVEMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; RECALL; ROUTE LEARNING; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH; STIMULUS; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADOLESCENT; HAND; PHYSIOLOGY; SPATIAL MEMORY; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; FEMALE; GESTURES; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; MENTAL RECALL; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPEECH; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84913580267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0112543     Document Type: Article

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