Gesture During Mental Rotation

Expanding the Space of Cognitive Science - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1448-1453

  Hostetter, Autumn B ^a   Alibali, Martha W ^a   Bartholomew, Anne E ^a  

^a Department of Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

gesture; mental imagery; simulation; spatial problem solving

Indexed keywords

CONDITION; GESTURE; HIGH RATE; MENTAL IMAGERY; MENTAL ROTATION; ROTATION PROBLEM; SIMULATION; SPATIAL PROBLEM SOLVING; SPATIAL PROBLEMS;

ROTATION;

EID: 85097665714     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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