Language entails many nested time scales, ranging from the relatively slow scale of cultural
evolution to the rapid scale of individual cognition. The nested, multiscale nature of …

A prototypical place where sentences emerge in the natural world is within utterances in
conversation. 1 This paper will focus on how the accomplishment of coherence in discourse …

Most previous work examining co-speech gestures (the spontaneous bodily movements and
configurations we engage in during speaking) has emphasized the importance of their most …

Unlike most prior research on gesture during speaking, with the exception of the concept of
the catchment (McNeill 2000) developed within the growth point model, this work focuses on …

In English, prosody adds a broad range of information to segment sequences, from
information structure (eg contrast) to stylistic variation (eg expression of emotion). However …

Noise pollution is part of our daily life, affecting millions of people, particularly those living in
urban environments. Noise alters our perception and decreases our ability to understand …

Listening to a speaker or a melody in the presence of competing sounds crucially depends
on our brain's sophisticated ability to organize a complex sound mixture changing over time …

It is well established that hand gestures affect comprehension and learning of semantic
aspects of a foreign language (FL). However, much less is known about the role of hand …

Multimodality, besides entailing at least two modes of expression, also engages at least two
modes of interpretation. For instance, when language and gesture coincide, the body of the …

This chapter summarizes a neural model of how humans use pitch-based information to
separate and attentively track multiple voices or instruments in distinct auditory streams, as …