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 …

Why do we gesture when we speak? The Cognitive Psychology of Speech-Related Gesture
offers answers to this question while introducing readers to the huge interdisciplinary field of …

Public speakers like politicians carefully craft their words to maximize the clarity, impact, and
persuasiveness of their messages. However, these messages can be shaped by more than …

Background Co-speech gestures are part of nonverbal communication during
conversations. They either support the verbal message or provide the interlocutor with …

Cross-linguistic evidence suggests that language typology influences how people gesture
when using 'manner-of-motion'verbs (Kita 2000; Kita & Özyürek 2003) and that this is due to …

Background: Gestures are spontaneous hand and arm movements that frequently
accompany speech and play an important role in everyday communication. When …

Simplified Signs presents a system of manual sign communication intended for special
populations who have had limited success mastering spoken or full sign languages. It is the …

This chapter provides an introductory overview of some of the basic experimental paradigms
traditionally employed in the field of gesture studies to investigate both comprehension and …

We investigated the effect of age and directive words on children's ability to semantically
integrate speech and iconic gesture. The participants were 132 children aged 4 to 6 years …

Children typically communicate with their caregivers in multimodal environments and
interact through a variety of modalities, including eye gaze, facial expressions and hand …