This study investigates whether displaying gestures that correspond to the depicted
movements enhances learning about non-human biological movements with dynamic …

Hand gestures facilitate memory processes, both for newly learned material and for material
that is already understood. Gestures facilitate working memory in the moment in which they …

Gesture production and perception have a strong impact on speech perception and social-
communicative functioning. Consequently, we created the 'Brief Assessment of …

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 …

Adults regularly use word-gesture combinations in communication, and meaningful gestures
facilitate word learning. However, it is not clear if this benefit of gestures is due to the …

Gestures are adept at expressing perceptual and motor information. In this chapter, we
propose that, as representational actions, gestures both stem from and influence perceptual …

The motor interference hypothesis posits that performing a secondary motor task with a task
relevant effector (eg, the hand) impairs performance on a primary object-naming task …

Introduction Naturalistically, multisensory information of gesture and speech is intrinsically
integrated to enable coherent comprehension. Such cross-modal semantic integration is …

Previous research suggests that meaningful gestures in the absence of speech (ie
pantomimed gestures) influence lexical processing, but, the extent to which pantomimes …

Subtle motor activity of the gluteal muscles and legs of the operator sitting in a chair can be
obtained by using capacity sensors applied to the seat itself, thus making viable to easily …