Are gesturing and speaking shaped by similar communicative constraints? In an experiment,
we teased apart communicative from cognitive constraints upon multiple dimensions of …

Gestures and speech are tightly linked. Since McNeill (1992) argued that gesture and
speech form a single integrated system, research has shown that gestures and speech …

Contemporary research on aging has provided mixed evidence for whether older adults are
less effective than younger adults at designing and delivering spoken utterances. However …

This study examined age effects on real-life language use and within-person variations in
language use across social contexts. We used the Electronically Activated Recorder (ie, a …

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

In this overview we describe literature on how speech production and speech perception
change in healthy or normal aging across the adult lifespan. In the production section we …

systematically examine how young and elderly adults select segments of normal and
unstructured speech passages and evaluate how speech rate and speech structure affect …

When older adults are asked to identify problems in their daily cognitive functioning, certain
aspects of language production are at the top of their list. They rate word finding failures and …

Older adults' ability to perceive, comprehend, and produce language has been an area of
interest to researchers in recent years. One of the core questions under study has been …

Humans gesture even when their gestures can serve no communicative function (eg, when
the listener cannot see them). This study explores the intrapersonal function of gestures, and …