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 …

A landmark account of the neurobiological basis of language—arguing that species-specific
brain differences may be at the root of the human capacity for language. Language makes …

Teaching Deaf Learners: Psychological and Developmental Foundations explores how deaf
students (children and adolescents) learn and the conditions that support their reaching their …

As we speak, we use not only the arbitrary form–meaning mappings of the speech channel
but also motivated form–meaning correspondences, ie iconic gestures that accompany …

Purpose This study investigated whether and to what extent iconic co-speech gestures
contribute to information from visible speech to enhance degraded speech comprehension …

In human and nonhuman primates, the cortical motor system comprises a collection of brain
areas primarily related to motor control. Existing evidence suggests that no other …

The ecology of human language is face-to-face interaction, comprising cues such as
prosody, co-speech gestures and mouth movements. Yet, the multimodal context is usually …

Schizophrenia patients are severely impaired in nonverbal communication, including social
perception and gesture production. However, the impact of nonverbal social perception on …

Neuroimaging studies have shown that the neural mechanisms of motor imagery (MI)
overlap substantially with the mechanisms of motor execution (ME). Surprisingly, however …