April 2011
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Gestures, Words and Thoughts.
When Warner Brothers released the seven-minute cartoon Canary Row in 1950, it’s a good bet no one realized they’d created an important tool in the study of human communication and cognition.
Since about 1980, Canary Row has taken on a second life in David McNeill’s University of Chicago psycholinguistics laboratory. McNeill and a succession...