Speakers sometimes convey information in their gestures that they do not convey in the
accompanying speech. The present study examined whether individual differences in the …

Speakers sometimes express information in gestures that they do not express in speech. In
this research, we developed a system that could be used to assess the redundancy of …

Purpose To study the independence of gesture and verbal language production. The
authors assessed whether gesture can be semantically compensatory in cases of verbal …

Research on gesture production has emphasized the strong relationship between speech
and gesture. Studies have explored whether the inability to gesture is detrimental to speech …

Listeners are sensitive to speakers' co-speech iconic gestures. Concurrent visual and verbal
information compete for attentional resources during multimodal comprehension. The …

Individuals differ greatly in how often they gesture when they speak. This study investigated
relations between speakers' verbal and spatial skills and their gesture rates. Two types of …

Do speakers gesture to benefit their listeners? This study examined whether speakers use
gestures differently when those gestures have the potential to communicate and when they …

Language production makes use of speakers' abilities to shape, direct, and locate their
hands and bodies in space and in relation to interlocutors and to objects in the environment …

Gestures facilitate speech production by helping speakers reduce cognitive load. Studies on
gesture-speech interaction mostly examined the effect of representational gestures on …

Gestures and their concurrent words are often said to be meaningfully related and co-
expressive. Research has shown that gestures and words are each particularly suited to …