Although activity in premotor and motor cortices is commonly observed in neuroimaging
studies of spoken language processing, the degree to which this activity is an obligatory part …

Listeners are sensitive to speakers' co-speech iconic gestures. Concurrent visual and verbal
information compete for attentional resources during multimodal comprehension. The …

The production of propositional language is unique and central to the human experience.
Distinct from core spoken language skills (eg, reading, naming, repeating), propositional …

Background: Stroke may cause sentence comprehension disorders. Speech segmentation,
ie the ability to detect word boundaries while listening to continuous speech, is an initial step …

The main objective of this study was to investigate the extent to which hearing impairment
influences the duration of sentence processing. An eye-tracking paradigm is introduced that …

Purpose When we speak, we gesture, and indeed, persons with aphasia gesture more
frequently. The reason (s) for this is still being investigated, spurring an increase in the …

In human communication, direct speech (eg, Mary said:'I'm hungry') coincides with vivid
paralinguistic demonstrations of the reported speech acts whereas indirect speech (eg, Mary …

Viewing hand gestures during face‐to‐face communication affects speech perception and
comprehension. Despite the visible role played by gesture in social interactions, relatively …

People with aphasia (PWA) spontaneously use various gesture types. Such gestures can
potentially express semantic content that complements speech. We investigated whether …