Gestures are an important part of interpersonal communication, for example by illustrating
physical properties of speech contents (eg,“the ball is round”). The meaning of these so …

Recent research on the neural integration of speech and gesture has examined either
gesture in the context of concrete [iconic (IC) gestures] or abstract sentence content …

Gestures are an important part of human communication. However, little is known about the
neural correlates of gestures accompanying speech comprehension. The goal of this study …

Iconic gestures are spontaneous hand movements that illustrate certain contents of speech
and, as such, are an important part of face-to-face communication. This experiment targets …

In communicative situations, speech is often accompanied by gestures. For example,
speakers tend to illustrate certain contents of speech by means of iconic gestures which are …

One of the key features of human interpersonal communication is our ability to integrate
information communicated by speech and accompanying gestures. However, it is still not …

Although generally studied in isolation, language and action often co-occur in everyday life.
Here we investigated one particular form of simultaneous language and action, namely …

Symbolic gestures, such as pantomimes that signify actions (eg, threading a needle) or
emblems that facilitate social transactions (eg, finger to lips indicating “be quiet”), play an …

Speech-accompanying gestures constitute one information channel during communication.
Some have argued that processing gestures engages the brain regions that support …

In a natural setting, speech is often accompanied by gestures. As language, speech-
accompanying iconic gestures to some extent convey semantic information. However, if …