"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.
| Descriptor ID |
D005868
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| MeSH Number(s) |
F01.145.209.530.538.445
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| Concept/Terms |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Gestures" by people in Profiles.
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Are ape gestures like words? Outstanding issues in detecting similarities and differences between human language and ape gesture. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci. 2022 09 26; 377(1860):20210301.
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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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Great ape gestures: intentional communication with a rich set of innate signals. Anim Cogn. 2019 Jul; 22(4):471.
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Bonobo and chimpanzee gestures overlap extensively in meaning. PLoS Biol. 2018 02; 16(2):e2004825.
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What is a gesture? A meaning-based approach to defining gestural repertoires. Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2017 Nov; 82:3-12.
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Great ape gestures: intentional communication with a rich set of innate signals. Anim Cogn. 2017 07; 20(4):755-769.
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Where have all the (ape) gestures gone? Psychon Bull Rev. 2017 02; 24(1):68-71.
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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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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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The meanings of chimpanzee gestures. Curr Biol. 2014 Jul 21; 24(14):1596-1600.