Ageing has effects both on language and gestural communication skills. Although gesture
use is similar between younger and older adults, the use of representational gestures (eg …

Age‐related changes are observed in the speech and gestures of neurotypical individuals.
Older adults are more disfluent in speech and use fewer representational gestures (eg …

Speech and conversational hand gestures were recorded during interviews of 23 younger
(M= 21 years) and 19 older adults (M= 70 years). Three kinds of questions were used in …

This chapter focuses on all four categories of co-speech gesture such as iconic, metaphoric,
deictic, and beat. It reviews the impact of aging on general language and cognitive abilities …

This study asked whether:(1) adults process representational gesture and (2) gesture is
remembered over time. Forty-five college students (ages 22–38) were each randomly …

There is contradictory evidence on whether speech production gets impaired or enhanced
when people are restrained from gesturing. There is also very little research on how this …

This study investigated the impact of age on iconic gesture and speech integration. The
performance of a group of older adults (60–76 years) and a group of younger adults (22–30 …

The effect of aging on gesture production in an object-description task was studied. An
interaction was found between age and class of gesture; elderly females produced far fewer …

This study explored age-related changes in gesture to better understand the relationship
between gesture and word retrieval from memory. The frequency of gestures during tip-of …

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