The differentiation of iconic and metaphoric gestures: Common and unique integration processes

B Straube, A Green, B Bromberger… - Human brain …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Recent research on the neural integration of speech and gesture has examined either
gesture in the context of concrete [iconic (IC) gestures] or abstract sentence content …

Neural integration of iconic and unrelated coverbal gestures: A functional MRI study

A Green, B Straube, S Weis, A Jansen… - Human brain …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Gestures are an important part of interpersonal communication, for example by illustrating
physical properties of speech contents (eg,“the ball is round”). The meaning of these so …

Neural interaction of speech and gesture: differential activations of metaphoric co-verbal gestures

T Kircher, B Straube, D Leube, S Weis, O Sachs… - Neuropsychologia, 2009 - Elsevier
Gestures are an important part of human communication. However, little is known about the
neural correlates of gestures accompanying speech comprehension. The goal of this study …

Integration of iconic gestures and speech in left superior temporal areas boosts speech comprehension under adverse listening conditions

H Holle, J Obleser, SA Rueschemeyer, TC Gunter - Neuroimage, 2010 - Elsevier
Iconic gestures are spontaneous hand movements that illustrate certain contents of speech
and, as such, are an important part of face-to-face communication. This experiment targets …

The EEG and fMRI signatures of neural integration: An investigation of meaningful gestures and corresponding speech

Y He, H Gebhardt, M Steines, G Sammer, T Kircher… - Neuropsychologia, 2015 - Elsevier
One of the key features of human interpersonal communication is our ability to integrate
information communicated by speech and accompanying gestures. However, it is still not …

Neural correlates of the processing of co-speech gestures

H Holle, TC Gunter, SA Rüschemeyer, A Hennenlotter… - NeuroImage, 2008 - Elsevier
In communicative situations, speech is often accompanied by gestures. For example,
speakers tend to illustrate certain contents of speech by means of iconic gestures which are …

Multisensory integration: the case of a time window of gesture–speech integration

C Obermeier, TC Gunter - Journal of Cognitive Neuroscience, 2014 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This experiment investigates the integration of gesture and speech from a multisensory
perspective. In a disambiguation paradigm, participants were presented with short videos of …

Memory effects of speech and gesture binding: cortical and hippocampal activation in relation to subsequent memory performance

B Straube, A Green, S Weis, A Chatterjee… - Journal of cognitive …, 2009 - direct.mit.edu
In human face-to-face communication, the content of speech is often illustrated by coverbal
gestures. Behavioral evidence suggests that gestures provide advantages in the …

The role of iconic gestures in speech comprehension: An overview of various methodologies

KG Kandana Arachchige, I Simoes Loureiro… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Iconic gesture-speech integration is a relatively recent field of investigation with numerous
researchers studying its various aspects. The results obtained are just as diverse. The …

When language meets action: The neural integration of gesture and speech

RM Willems, A Özyürek, P Hagoort - Cerebral Cortex, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Although generally studied in isolation, language and action often co-occur in everyday life.
Here we investigated one particular form of simultaneous language and action, namely …