… use of gestures in the conversation of participants with aphasia (PWA) and … gesture by
determining whether gestures particularly accompanied WFD and whether those difficulties …

… To summarize, using a relatively homogeneous group of PWA with good comprehension
and various degrees of production difficulty, we showed that the gesture system can remain …

… The primary aim of this study was to investigate the possible facilitation effects of
spontaneously generated arm and hand gestures during word retrieval difficulties in people with …

… Therefore, poor performance on the formal limb apraxia and pantomime tests may reflect
difficulties in the use of meta-linguistic or abstraction skills, rather than in the use of …

… aphasia, this gesture was iconic and was capable of communicative load. Aphasia type
impacted significantly on gesture … to their obvious word-finding difficulties in discourse and to the …

… semantically rich gestures and the overall number of WFD. ...........................................................................................
187 6.8.2.3 Relationship between semantically rich gestures and the …

… function of the hand and arm gestures investigated in this study. No differences were found
between aphasic … ) did not covary with instances of encoding difficulties in speech. Rather, …

… gesture and speech production in aphasia by exploring how much information speakers with
aphasia conveyed by gesture … full communicative potential through gesture. We compared …

… For example, the lexical retrieval perspective calls for a task designed to accentuate word‐finding
difficulties, while the stance that gestures emerge from a conceptual origin could be …

… However, the successful employment of gesture implies multiple … gesture use in non-impaired
and impaired aphasic interaction. In non-impaired face-to-face interaction, gestures mostly …