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Using our hands to change our minds.
Jean Piaget was a master at observing the routine behaviors children produce as they go from knowing less to knowing more about at a task, and making inferences not only about how children understand the task at each point, but also about how they progress from one point to the next. This article examines a routine behavior that Piaget overlooked-the spontaneous gestures speakers produce as the...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Nature
سال: 1989
ISSN: 0028-0836,1476-4687
DOI: 10.1038/342334c0