People often use spontaneous gestures when communicating spatial information. We
investigated focal brain-injured individuals to test the hypotheses that (1) naming motion …

Spatial language helps us to encode relations between objects and organize our thinking.
Little is known about the neural instantiations of spatial language. Using voxel-lesion …

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

Brain damage is associated with linguistic deficits and might alter co-speech gesture
production. Gesture production after focal brain injury has been mainly investigated with …

In most cultures, most of the time, when people talk they gesture. We took advantage of a
rare opportunity to explore the relation between the verbalization and gesticulation of motion …

Motor activations reported during action-word understanding have raised the question as to
whether the system for motor production contains semantically-relevant information …

There has been considerable interest in identifying the neural correlates of action naming,
but the bulk of previous work on this topic has utilized static stimuli. Recent research …

Background: The assessment and rehabilitation of acquired neurogenic communication
disorders rarely involves a systematic analysis of gesture use. The right cerebral …

Spontaneous co-speech hand gestures provide a visuospatial representation of what is
being communicated in spoken language. Although it is clear that gestures emerge from …

The patterns of speech-related (“coverbal”) gestures were investigated in two right-handed
aphasic patients, one (PA) with a primary deficit in pre-linguistic, conceptual processing and …