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 …

The field of nonverbal communication (NVC) has a long history involving many cue
modalities, including face, voice, body, touch, and interpersonal space; different levels of …

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 …

People spontaneously gesture when they speak (co-speech gestures) and when they solve
problems silently (co-thought gestures). In this study, we first explored the relationship …

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 …

Gestures help people think and can help problem solvers generate new ideas. We
conducted two experiments exploring the self-oriented function of gesture in a novel domain …

There is evidence that co-speech gestures communicate information to addressees and that
they are often communicatively intended. However, we still know comparatively little about …

Conversational hand and facial gestures are an integral part of language use in face-to-face
dialogue. Extensive research shows that conversational hand gestures are tightly …

Until recently, the literature on common ground depicted its influence as a purely verbal
phenomenon. We review current research on how common ground influences gesture. With …

Hand gestures are tightly coupled with speech and with action. Hence, recent accounts have
emphasised the idea that simulations of spatio-motoric imagery underlie the production of co …