The purpose of this study was to determine the relation between reading and working
memory (WM) in the context of 3 major theories: the domain-specificity theory (debate) of …

Abstract The Gesture as Simulated Action (GSA) framework was proposed to explain how
gestures arise from embodied simulations of the motor and perceptual states that occur …

When people talk, they gesture. Gesture is a fundamental component of language that
contributes meaningful and unique information to a spoken message and reflects the …

Speakers use spontaneous hand gestures as they speak and think. These gestures serve
many functions for speakers who produce them as well as for listeners who observe them …

Human communication combines language with gesture. Gesture contributes to the
uniquely human ability to communicate about an infinite number of ideas in an efficient way …

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

Recent advances in probabilistic pragmatics have achieved considerable success in
modeling speakers' and listeners' pragmatic reasoning as probabilistic inference. However …

Among other uses, co-speech gestures can contribute additional semantic content to the
spoken utterances with which they coincide. A growing body of research is dedicated to …

Children learn and use various strategies to solve math problems. One way children's math
learning can be supported is through their use of and exposure to hand gestures. Children's …

To date, within the context of second language (L2) word learning, nonspontaneous
representational gesture viewing's impact on memory and spontaneous gesture production's …