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Eliza L. Congdon; Elizabeth M. Wakefield; Miriam A. Novack; Naureen Hemani-Lopez; Susan Goldin-Meadow – Cognitive Science, 2024
Gestures--hand movements that accompany speech and express ideas--can help children learn how to solve problems, flexibly generalize learning to novel problem-solving contexts, and retain what they have learned. But does it matter who is doing the gesturing? We know that producing gesture leads to better comprehension of a message than watching…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Predictor Variables, Learning Processes, Generalization