Learning from gesture: How our hands change our minds

Educational Psychology Review

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 405-412

  Novack, Miriam ^a   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Communication; Development; Gesture; Learning; Mathematics; Teaching

Indexed keywords

EID: 84943349968     PISSN: 1040726X     EISSN: 1573336X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10648-015-9325-3     Document Type: Review

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