Iconic gesture-speech integration is a relatively recent field of investigation with numerous
researchers studying its various aspects. The results obtained are just as diverse. The …

Aphasia is an impairment of language caused by acquired brain damage such as stroke or
traumatic brain injury, that affects a person's ability to communicate effectively. The aim of …

In the last decade, a growing body of work has convincingly demonstrated that languages
embed a certain degree of non-arbitrariness (mostly in the form of iconicity, namely the …

Spoken language is an innate ability of the human being and represents the most
widespread mode of social communication. The ability to share concepts, intentions and …

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

There is ample agreement in the scientific literature, across diverse areas of study, that
suggests that language and movement are interrelated. In particular, it is widely held that the …

Human face-to-face communication is multimodal: it comprises speech as well as visual
cues, such as articulatory and limb gestures. In the current study, we assess how iconic …

Purpose Real-world communication is situated in rich multimodal contexts, containing
speech and gesture. Speakers often convey unique information in gesture that is not present …

Purpose When we speak, we gesture, and indeed, persons with aphasia gesture more
frequently. The reason (s) for this is still being investigated, spurring an increase in the …

Hand gestures, imagistically related to the content of speech, are ubiquitous in face-to-face
communication. Here we investigated people with aphasia's (PWA) processing of speech …