When comprehending speech-in-noise (SiN), younger and older adults benefit from seeing
the speaker's mouth, ie visible speech. Younger adults additionally benefit from manual …

This research topic presents speech as a natural, well-learned, multisensory communication
signal, processed by multiple mechanisms. Reflecting the general status of the field, most …

Aphasia is a profound language pathology hampering speech production and/or
comprehension. People With Aphasia (PWA) use more manual gestures than Non-Brain …

Hand gestures combine with speech to form a single integrated system of meaning during
language comprehension (Kelly et al., 2010). However, it is unknown whether gesture is …

Traditionally, the purpose of representational co-speech gestures is to repeat or represent
the semantic content of accompanying speech and so to facilitate speech comprehension …

Face-to-face interactions characterize communication in social contexts. These situations
are typically multimodal, requiring the integration of linguistic auditory input with facial …

Multi-modal discourse comprehension requires speakers to combine information from
speech and gestures. To date, little research has addressed the cognitive resources that …

Background: Conveying instructions is an everyday use of language, and gestures are likely
to be a key feature of this. Although co-speech iconic gestures are tightly integrated with …

Background: Professionals often recommend using high-context images as expressive and
receptive communication supports, even though researchers know little about the …

Some early studies of people with aphasia reported strikingly better performance on lexical
than on sublexical speech perception tasks. These findings challenged the claim that lexical …