The effect of the visual context in the recognition of symbolic gestures.

BACKGROUND: To investigate, by means of fMRI, the influence of the visual environment in the process of symbolic gesture recognition. Emblems are semiotic gestures that use movements or hand postures to symbolically encode and communicate meaning, independently of language. They often require contex...

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Main Authors: Mirta F Villarreal, Esteban A Fridman, Ramón C Leiguarda
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3283587?pdf=render