Listeners are sensitive to speakers' co-speech iconic gestures. Concurrent visual and verbal
information compete for attentional resources during multimodal comprehension. The …

In everyday conversation, listeners often rely on a speaker's gestures to clarify any
ambiguities in the verbal message. Using fMRI during naturalistic story comprehension, we …

Background: Stroke may cause sentence comprehension disorders. Speech segmentation,
ie the ability to detect word boundaries while listening to continuous speech, is an initial step …

Several perspectives on speech perception posit a central role for the representation of
articulations in speech comprehension, supported by evidence for premotor activation when …

The main objective of this study was to investigate the extent to which hearing impairment
influences the duration of sentence processing. An eye-tracking paradigm is introduced that …

Action recognition has been found to rely not only on sensory brain areas but also partly on
the observer's motor system. However, whether distinct auditory and visual experiences of …

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 …

The production of propositional language is unique and central to the human experience.
Distinct from core spoken language skills (eg, reading, naming, repeating), propositional …

In human communication, direct speech (eg, Mary said:'I'm hungry') coincides with vivid
paralinguistic demonstrations of the reported speech acts whereas indirect speech (eg, Mary …