Background: Discourse abilities play an important role in the assessment, classification, and
therapy outcome evaluation of people with aphasia. Discourse production in aphasia has …

Hypotheses about the emergence of human cognitive abilities postulate strong evolutionary
links between language and praxis, including the possibility that language was originally …

The use of co-verbal gestures is common in human communication and has been reported
to assist word retrieval and to facilitate verbal interactions. This study systematically …

Analysis of Neurogenic Disordered Discourse Production provides a comprehensive review
and discussion of aphasia and its related disorders, their corresponding clinical discourse …

Purpose: In persons living with aphasia, we will explore the relationship between iconic
gesture production during spontaneous speech and discourse task, spoken language, and …

Purpose Coverbal gesture use, which is affected by the presence and degree of aphasia,
can be culturally specific. The purpose of this study was to compare gesture use among …

Brain damage is associated with linguistic deficits and might alter co-speech gesture
production. Gesture production after focal brain injury has been mainly investigated with …

Gestures accompany speech and enrich human communication. When aphasia interferes
with verbal abilities, gestures become even more relevant, compensating for and/or …

The use of gestures is one of the reasons for which some aphasics communicate better than
they speak. For these aphasics as well as their partners, multimodality becomes a resource …

Background and Objectives. A tight link between linguistic functions and activation of motor
areas has been consistently reported, indicating that the 2 systems share functional neural …