Gestures can create diagrams (that are neither imagistic nor analog)

Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan:40:e73. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X15003088.

Abstract

The claim that gesture is primarily imagistic, analog, and holistic is challenged by the presence of abstract diagrammatic gestures, here points and lines, that represent point-like and line-like concepts and are integrated into larger constituents.

Publication types

  • Comment

MeSH terms

  • Gestures*
  • Humans
  • Language
  • Language Development
  • Sign Language*