Gestures accompany speech and enrich human communication. When aphasia interferes
with verbal abilities, gestures become even more relevant, compensating for and/or …

Background: Using gesture as a compensatory communication strategy may be challenging
for people with severe aphasia. Therapy can improve skills with gesture, at least in elicitation …

Hand gestures, imagistically related to the content of speech, are ubiquitous in face-to-face
communication. Here we investigated people with aphasia's (PWA) processing of speech …

The use of gestures is one of the reasons for which some aphasics communicate better than
they speak. For these aphasics as well as their partners, multimodality becomes a resource …

Background: People with aphasia (PWA) use different gesture types spontaneously,
including iconic gestures and pantomimes (Sekine & Rose, Citation 2013). Iconic gestures …

Background Co-speech gestures are omnipresent and a crucial element of human
interaction by facilitating language comprehension. However, it is unclear whether gestures …

As Rose discusses in the lead article, two camps can be identified in the field of gesture
research: those who believe that gesticulation enhances communication by providing extra …

Cross-linguistic evidence suggests that language typology influences how people gesture
when using 'manner-of-motion'verbs (Kita 2000; Kita & Özyürek 2003) and that this is due to …

The paper by Rose is an important and timely attempt to outline the implications of research
on gesture and speech for the treatment of aphasia. But this is not an easy task given that …

Background Humans often use co‐speech gestures to promote effective communication.
Attention has been paid to the cortical areas engaged in the processing of co‐speech …