Persons with brain damage show deviant patterns of co-speech hand movement behaviour
in comparison to healthy speakers. It has been claimed by several authors that gesture and …

Co-speech hand gestures are an ubiquitous form of nonverbal communication, which can
express additional information that is not present in speech. Hand gestures may become …

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 …

Patterns of speech-related ('coverbal') gestures were investigated in three groups of right-
handed, brain-damaged patients and in matched controls. One group had anomic aphasia …

The present study investigates the hand choice in iconic gestures that accompany speech.
In 10 right-handed subjects gestures were elicited by verbal narration and by silent gestural …

Introduction A right-hand preference for co-speech gestures in right-handed neurotypical
individuals as well as the co-occurrence of speech and gesture has induced …

A group of eight right hemisphere brain damaged (RHBD) individuals' use of gesture during
discourse was explored at two points post stroke. Three topic structured conversational and …

Recent neuropsychological, psycholinguistic, and evolutionary theories on language and
gesture associate communicative gesture production exclusively with left hemisphere …

Patterns of speech-related (“coverbal”) gestures were investigated in two groups of right-
handed, brain-damaged patients and in matched controls. One group of patients (" ldquo; …

In order to address previous controversies whether hand movements and gestures are
linked to mental concepts or solely to the process of speaking, in the present study we …