The Effect of Left-Hand Gestures on Metaphor Explanation

Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 1762-1767

  Argyriou, Paraskevi ^a   Kita, Sotaro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BIRMINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

brain hemispheric lateralization; Metaphor; mouth asymmetry; representational gestures

Indexed keywords

BRAIN HEMISPHERES; BRAIN HEMISPHERIC LATERALIZATION; COGNITIVE PROCESS; HAND GESTURE; LATERALIZATION; METAPHOR; MOUTH ASYMMETRY; REPRESENTATIONAL GESTURE; RIGHT BRAIN; RIGHT HEMISPHERES;

EID: 84914136505     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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