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The origin of pointing: Evidence for the touch hypothesis

Pointing gestures play a foundational role in human language, but up to now, we have not known where these gestures come from. Here, we investigated the hypothesis that pointing originates in touch. We found, first, that when pointing at a target, children and adults oriented their fingers not as th...

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Autores principales: O’Madagain, Cathal, Kachel, Gregor, Strickland, Brent
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6620103/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31309141
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aav2558