Gesture as a window onto children's number knowledge

Cognition

Volumn 144, Issue , 2015, Pages 14-28

  Gunderson, Elizabeth A ^a   Spaepen, Elizabet ^b   Gibson, Dominic ^b   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^b   Levine, Susan C ^b  

^a TEMPLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Approximation; Cardinality; Gesture; Gesture speech mismatch; Number words

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LEARNING; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPEECH; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; MATHEMATICS; PHYSIOLOGY;

CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMPREHENSION; CONCEPT FORMATION; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; MALE; MATHEMATICS;

EID: 84937789473     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.07.008     Document Type: Article

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