From action to abstraction: Gesture as a mechanism of change.

摘要: Piaget was a master at observing the routine behaviors children produce as they go from knowing less to more about task, and making inferences not only how understood task each point, but also progressed one point next. In this paper, I examine behavior that overlooked-the spontaneous gestures speakers explain their solutions problem. These are mere hand waving. They reflect ideas speaker has problem, often found in speaker's talk. But gesture can do than ideas-it change them. sense, behaves like any other action; both action on objects facilitate learning problems which training given. However, promotes transferring knowledge gained require generalization. Gesture is, fact, special kind of it represents world rather directly manipulating (gesture does move around). The mechanisms by promote may therefore differ-gesture is able highlight components an abstract while leaving out details could tie specific context. Because representation, serve bridge between two thus be powerful tool for ideas.