Learning from gesture: How early does it happen?

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  2015

• Venue

  Cognition

• Publication date

  2015-09-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Education, Psychology

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  DOI 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.05.018PMID 26036925PMCID PMC4500665
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