Face-to-face communication is multimodal. It comprises a plethora of linguistic and non-
linguistic cues, such as gestures, face and body movements, eye gaze, and prosody, that …

The role of nonverbal communication in patients with post-stroke language impairment
(aphasia) is not yet fully understood. This study investigated how aphasic patients perceive …

Co-speech hand gestures are an ubiquitous form of nonverbal communication, which can
express additional information that is not present in speech. Hand gestures may become …

Background Co-speech gestures are omnipresent and a crucial element of human
interaction by facilitating language comprehension. However, it is unclear whether gestures …

Visual speech carried by lip movements is an integral part of communication. Yet, it remains
unclear in how far visual and acoustic speech comprehension are mediated by the same …

Human face-to-face communication is multimodal: it comprises speech as well as visual
cues, such as articulatory and limb gestures. In the current study, we assess how iconic …

As we speak, we use not only the arbitrary form–meaning mappings of the speech channel
but also motivated form–meaning correspondences, ie iconic gestures that accompany …

The human brain supports communication in dynamic face-to-face environments where
spoken words are embedded in linguistic discourse and accompanied by multimodal cues …

Communicative gestures can compensate incomprehensibility of oral speech in severe
aphasia, but the brain damage that causes aphasia may also have an impact on the …

The ecology of human language is face-to-face interaction, comprising cues, like prosody,
cospeech gestures, and mouth movements. Yet, the multimodal context is usually stripped …