Better together: Simultaneous presentation of speech and gesture in math instruction supports generalization and retention

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 50, Issue , 2017, Pages 65-74

  Congdon, Eliza L ^a   Novack, Miriam A ^a   Brooks, Neon ^a   Hemani Lopez, Naureen ^a   O'Keefe, Lucy ^a   Goldin Meadow, Susan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Gesture; Learning; Mathematics; Multimodality; Transfer

Indexed keywords

EID: 85017183811     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2017.03.005     Document Type: Article

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