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 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 …

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 …

Viewing hand gestures during face‐to‐face communication affects speech perception and
comprehension. Despite the visible role played by gesture in social interactions, relatively …

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

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 …

Everyday communication is accompanied by visual information from several sources,
including co‐speech gestures, which provide semantic information listeners use to help …

Language and action naturally occur together in the form of cospeech gestures, and there is
now convincing evidence that listeners display a strong tendency to integrate semantic …

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 …

Several studies indicate that both posterior superior temporal sulcus/middle temporal gyrus
(pSTS/MTG) and left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) are involved in integrating information from …