Gestures make memories, but what kind? Patients with impaired procedural memory display disruptions in gesture production and comprehension

Gestures make memories, but what kind? Patients with impaired procedural memory display disruptions in gesture production and comprehension

Hand gesture, a ubiquitous feature of human interaction, facilitates communication. Gesture also facilitates new learning, benefiting speakers and listeners alike. Thus, gestures must impact cognition beyond simply supporting the expression of already-formed ideas. However, the cognitive and neural...

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Main Authors: Nathaniel Bloem Klooster, Susan Wagner Cook, Ergun Y. Uc, Melissa C. Duff
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2015-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Subjects:
Communication
Learning
Parkinson’s disease
declarative memory
memory systems
procedural memory
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fnhum.2014.01054/full

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