Gestures for Thinking

Cooperative Minds: Social Interaction and Group Dynamics - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society, CogSci 2013

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 645-650

  Jamalian, Azadeh ^a   Giardino, Valeria ^b   Tversky, Barbara ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^b INSTITUT JEAN NICOD   (France)

Author keywords

embodiment; Gesture; navigation; route survey perspectives; spatial memory; spatial representation

Indexed keywords

EMBODIMENT; GESTURE; ROUTE SURVEYS; ROUTE/SURVEY PERSPECTIVE; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS;

EID: 85139483487     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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