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 …

Co-speech gestures traditionally have been considered communicative, but they may also
serve other functions. For example, hand-arm movements seem to facilitate both spatial …

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

Co-speech gestures constitute a unique form of multimodal communication because here
the hand movements are temporally synchronized and semantically integrated with speech …

Gesture facilitates language production, but there is debate surrounding its exact role. It has
been argued that gestures lighten the load on verbal working memory (VWM; Goldin …

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

The present series of experiments explores several issues related to gesture–speech
integration and synchrony during sentence processing. To be able to more precisely …

What type of mental representation underlies the gestures that accompany speech? We
used a dual-task paradigm to compare the demands gesturing makes on visuospatial and …

Co-speech gestures have been shown to interact with working memory (WM). However, no
study has investigated whether there are individual differences in the effect of gestures on …

To examine whether more ecologically valid co-speech gesture stimuli elicit brain responses
consistent with those found by studies that relied on scripted stimuli, we presented …