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

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 April 2017

Barbara Tversky
Barbara Tversky*
Affiliation:
Teachers College, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027; Department of Psychology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2130. btversky@stanford.edu
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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.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e73
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