When comprehending speech-in-noise (SiN), younger and older adults benefit from seeing
the speaker's mouth, ie visible speech. Younger adults additionally benefit from manual …

Traditionally, the purpose of representational co-speech gestures is to repeat or represent
the semantic content of accompanying speech and so to facilitate speech comprehension …

Hand gestures combine with speech to form a single integrated system of meaning during
language comprehension (Kelly et al., 2010). However, it is unknown whether gesture is …

Face-to-face interactions characterize communication in social contexts. These situations
are typically multimodal, requiring the integration of linguistic auditory input with facial …

Background: Conveying instructions is an everyday use of language, and gestures are likely
to be a key feature of this. Although co-speech iconic gestures are tightly integrated with …

People with aphasia (PWA) spontaneously use various gesture types. Such gestures can
potentially express semantic content that complements speech. We investigated whether …

Background: Professionals often recommend using high-context images as expressive and
receptive communication supports, even though researchers know little about the …

Aphasia is a profound language pathology hampering speech production and/or
comprehension. People With Aphasia (PWA) use more manual gestures than Non-Brain …

Multi-modal discourse comprehension requires speakers to combine information from
speech and gestures. To date, little research has addressed the cognitive resources that …

The issue of the relationship between speech and co-verbal gestures has been the object of
numerous studies without any consensus being reached. This paper investigates current …