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 …

Children produce iconic gestures conveying action information earlier than the ones
conveying attribute information (Özçalışkan, Gentner, & Goldin-Meadow, 2014). In this study …

Previous studies have suggested that a co-speech gesture needs to be synchronous with
semantically related speech (semantic affiliates) for its successful semantic integration into a …

Native listeners neurally integrate iconic gestures with speech, which can enhance
degraded speech comprehension. However, it is unknown how non-native listeners neurally …

The relationship between language and symbolic gesture was studied in a group of young
children who were in the lowest 10% for language production for their age based on …

Previous research has shown that iconic gestures are effective at communicating semantic
information, particularly about the size and relative position of objects. However, the …

Three experiments tested the role of verbal versus visuo-spatial working memory in the
comprehension of co-speech iconic gestures. In Experiment 1, participants viewed …

Research on the co-development of gestures and speech mainly focuses on children in
early phases of language acquisition. This study investigates how children in later …

Through constant exposure to adult input in interaction, children's language gradually
develops into rich linguistic constructions containing multiple cross-modal elements subtly …

Adults regularly use word-gesture combinations in communication, and meaningful gestures
facilitate word learning. However, it is not clear if this benefit of gestures is due to the …