Speakers can adapt their speech and co-speech gestures based on knowledge shared with
an addressee (common ground-based recipient design). Here, we investigate whether these …

In everyday life, interactions between humans are generally modulated by the value
attributed to the situation, which partly relies on the partner's behavior. A pleasant or …

We assessed the extent to which previous experience of joint gaze with people (ie, looking
toward the same object) modulates later gaze cueing of attention elicited by those …

In conversation, women have a small advantage in decoding non-verbal communication
compared to men. In light of these findings, we sought to determine whether sex differences …

Sensitivity to another person's eye gaze is vital for social and language development. In this
eye-tracking study, a group of 74 children (6–14 years old) performed a gaze-cueing …

Most communication in everyday life takes place in less than ideal listening conditions and
the presence of noise or other voices in the background is often challenging for older adults …

Many conversations in our day-to-day lives are held in noisy environments–impeding
comprehension, and in groups–taxing auditory attention-switching processes. These …

Conversation scenes are a typical example in which classical models of visual attention
dramatically fail to predict eye positions. Indeed, these models rarely consider faces as …

Everyday communication frequently comprises situations with more than one talker
speaking at a time. These situations are challenging since they pose high attentional and …

Previous research has shown that (co-speech) hand gestures sometimes aid cognition and
can reduce a speaker's cognitive load. We argue that this is not the case for gestures that …