Despite the fact that they are produced in different modalities, gesture and speech form a
unified communication system in adults. To explore whether symbolic communicative …

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 …

There is contradictory evidence on whether speech production gets impaired or enhanced
when people are restrained from gesturing. There is also very little research on how this …

Children, even at the one-word stage of language development, spontaneously produce
gestures along with their speech, just as adults do. Although there appears to be a brief …

Humans gesture even when their gestures can serve no communicative function (eg, when
the listener cannot see them). This study explores the intrapersonal function of gestures, and …

Researchers have theorised that speech and gesture are integrated in communication. We
ask whether this integrated relationship is indexed by a unique temporal link between …

There is no doubt that gestures are communicative and can be integrated online with
speech. Little is known, however, about the nature of this process, for example, its …

Background Information from speech and gesture is often integrated to comprehend a
message. This integration process requires the appropriate allocation of cognitive resources …

The effect of aging on gesture production in an object-description task was studied. An
interaction was found between age and class of gesture; elderly females produced far fewer …