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 …

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 …

People spontaneously produce gestures during speaking and thinking. The authors focus
here on gestures that depict or indicate information related to the contents of concurrent …

Humans communicate using language, but they also communicate using gesture–
spontaneous movements of the hands and body that universally accompany speech …

Age‐related changes are observed in the speech and gestures of neurotypical individuals.
Older adults are more disfluent in speech and use fewer representational gestures (eg …

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 …

Gestures help speakers and listeners during communication and thinking, particularly for
visual-spatial information. Speakers tend to use gestures to complement the accompanying …

Background Previous research suggests that speakers are especially likely to produce
manual communicative gestures when they have relative ease in thinking about the spatial …

Three experiments tested the role of verbal versus visuo-spatial working memory in the
comprehension of co-speech iconic gestures. In Experiment 1, participants viewed …