What makes a movement a gesture?

Cognition

Volumn 146, Issue , 2016, Pages 339-348

  Novack, Miriam A ^a   Wakefield, Elizabeth M ^a   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Action understanding; Gesture; Representational movement

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CODING ALGORITHM; COGNITION; FEMALE; GESTURE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERPERSONAL COMMUNICATION; LEARNING; MALE; MOVEMENT (PHYSIOLOGY); PREDICTIVE VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

ADULT; FEMALE; GESTURES; HUMANS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; SOCIAL PERCEPTION; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84945151272     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.10.014     Document Type: Article

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