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Experience with Pointing Gestures Facilitates Infant Vocabulary Growth through Enhancement of Sensorimotor Brain Activity
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Salo, Virginia C.; Debnath, Ranjan; Rowe, Meredith L.; Fox, Nathan A. – Developmental Psychology, 2023
Exposure to communicative gestures, through their parents' use of gestures, is associated with infants' language development. However, the mechanisms supporting this link are not fully understood. In adults, sensorimotor brain activity occurs while processing communicative stimuli, including both spoken language and gestures. Using…
Descriptors: Nonverbal Communication, Infants, Language Acquisition, Brain