 Gestures
"Gestures" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
MeSH (Medical Subject Headings). Descriptors are arranged in a hierarchical structure,
which enables searching at various levels of specificity.
Movement of a part of the body for the purpose of communication.
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D005868
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.145.209.530.538.445
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This graph shows the total number of publications written about "Gestures" by people in this website by year, and whether "Gestures" was a major or minor topic of these publications.
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| 2007 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2009 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2010 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2013 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2014 | 2 | 1 | 3 | | 2016 | 1 | 1 | 2 | | 2017 | 3 | 0 | 3 | | 2018 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2019 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2020 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Gestures" by people in Profiles.
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Smet AF, Byrne RW. African elephants interpret a trunk gesture as a clue to direction of interest. Curr Biol. 2020 08 17; 30(16):R926-R927.
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Byrne RW, Cartmill E, Genty E, Graham KE, Hobaiter C, Tanner J. Great ape gestures: intentional communication with a rich set of innate signals. Anim Cogn. 2019 Jul; 22(4):471.
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Graham KE, Hobaiter C, Ounsley J, Furuichi T, Byrne RW. Bonobo and chimpanzee gestures overlap extensively in meaning. PLoS Biol. 2018 02; 16(2):e2004825.
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Hobaiter C, Byrne RW. What is a gesture? A meaning-based approach to defining gestural repertoires. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2017 Nov; 82:3-12.
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Byrne RW, Cartmill E, Genty E, Graham KE, Hobaiter C, Tanner J. Great ape gestures: intentional communication with a rich set of innate signals. Anim Cogn. 2017 07; 20(4):755-769.
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Byrne RW, Cochet H. Where have all the (ape) gestures gone? Psychon Bull Rev. 2017 02; 24(1):68-71.
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Graham KE, Furuichi T, Byrne RW. The gestural repertoire of the wild bonobo (Pan paniscus): a mutually understood communication system. Anim Cogn. 2017 Mar; 20(2):171-177.
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Cochet H, Byrne RW. Communication in the second and third year of life: Relationships between nonverbal social skills and language. Infant Behav Dev. 2016 Aug; 44:189-98.
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Hobaiter C, Byrne RW. The meanings of chimpanzee gestures. Curr Biol. 2014 Jul 21; 24(14):1596-1600.
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Smet AF, Byrne RW. African elephants (Loxodonta africana) recognize visual attention from face and body orientation. Biol Lett. 2014 Jul; 10(7).
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