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 …

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 …

Gestures might serve communicative functions by supplementing spoken expressions or
restorative functions by facilitating speech production. Also, speakers with speech deficits …

Background: The assessment and rehabilitation of acquired neurogenic communication
disorders rarely involves a systematic analysis of gesture use. The right cerebral …

Focal brain injury can have detrimental effects on the pragmatics of communication. This
study examined narrative production by unilateral brain damaged people (n= 36) and …

The use of co-verbal gestures is common in human communication and has been reported
to assist word retrieval and to facilitate verbal interactions. This study systematically …

People often use spontaneous gestures when communicating spatial information. We
investigated focal brain-injured individuals to test the hypotheses that (1) naming motion …

Background Humans often use co‐speech gestures to promote effective communication.
Attention has been paid to the cortical areas engaged in the processing of co‐speech …

Although it is common for descriptions of communication ability in people with right
hemisphere brain damage (RHBD) to include discourse deficits that affect pragmatic …

Mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) and postconcussive syndrome can result in difficult to
document complaints regarding subtle language use. Narrative discourse production has …