How Language Began: Gesture and Speech in Human Evolution

By David McNeill. 2012

173 citations recorded by the source corpus.

Subfields: Developmental and Educational Psychology, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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In Developmental and Educational Psychology

1. Sergio Escalera
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3. Vassilis Athitsos
4. Liang Wang

In Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

1. Sergio Escalera

Citations in the corpus

• Challenges in multimodal gesture recognition (2016, background): “The importance of gestures in communication is rooted in primal behaviors: the gesture-first theory, supported by the analysis of mirror neurons in primates (Hewes, 1973), indicated that the first steps of language phylogenetically were not speech, nor speech with gesture, but were gestures alone (M”