The semantic specificity of gesture was assessed by the ability of untrained participants to
recognize the meaning of ideational gestures in a forced-choice paradigm. Untrained …

Purpose To study the independence of gesture and verbal language production. The
authors assessed whether gesture can be semantically compensatory in cases of verbal …

Children understand gesture+ speech combinations in which a deictic gesture adds new
information to the accompanying speech by age 1; 6 (Morford & Goldin-Meadow …

One traditional view of how speech and gesture interact in talk is that gestures represent
information, which is largely redundant with respect to the information contained in the …

Background Previous research suggests that speakers are especially likely to produce
manual communicative gestures when they have relative ease in thinking about the spatial …

Co-speech gestures have a close semantic relationship to speech in adult conversation. In
typically developing children co-speech gestures which give additional information to …

Gestures might serve communicative functions by supplementing spoken expressions or
restorative functions by facilitating speech production. Also, speakers with speech deficits …

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

To understand a speaker's gestures, people may draw on kinesthetic working memory
(KWM)—a system for temporarily remembering body movements. The present study …

This experiment investigates the integration of gesture and speech from a multisensory
perspective. In a disambiguation paradigm, participants were presented with short videos of …