Background: The background to this study is that aphasiologists have increasingly started to
pay attention not only to the speech that people with aphasia produce, but also to their …

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

The use of co-verbal gestures is common in human communication and has been reported
to assist word retrieval and to facilitate verbal interactions. This study systematically …

Purpose When we speak, we gesture, and indeed, persons with aphasia gesture more
frequently. The reason (s) for this is still being investigated, spurring an increase in the …

Background Speakers with aphasia gesture, but the extent to which these gestures improve
their communication success is unclear. Aim The primary aim is to assess if gesture …

Background: In order to comprehend fully a speaker's intention in everyday communication,
information is integrated from multiple sources, including gesture and speech. There are no …

People with aphasia use gestures not only to communicate relevant content but also to
compensate for their verbal limitations. The Sketch Model (De Ruiter, 2000) assumes a …

Purpose: In persons living with aphasia, we will explore the relationship between iconic
gesture production during spontaneous speech and discourse task, spoken language, and …

Background Gesticulation (gestures accompanying speech) and pantomime (gestures in the
absence of speech) can each be comprehensible. Little is known about the differences …

Background Human communication occurs through both verbal and visual/motoric
modalities. Simultaneous conversational speech and gesture occurs across all cultures and …