Gestures Enhance Foreign Language Learning

Language and gesture are highly interdependent systems that reciprocally influence each other. For example, performing a gesture when learning a word or a phrase enhances its retrieval compared to pure verbal learning. Although the enhancing effects of co-speech gestures on memory are known to be ro...

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Main Authors: Manuela Macedonia, Katharina von Kriegstein
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Biolinguistics 2012-11-01
Series:Biolinguistics
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Online Access:http://biolinguistics.eu/index.php/biolinguistics/article/view/248