Differential roles of gestures on spatial language in neurotypical elderly adults and individuals with focal brain injury

D Özer, T Göksun, A Chatterjee - Cognitive neuropsychology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Gestures might serve communicative functions by supplementing spoken expressions or
restorative functions by facilitating speech production. Also, speakers with speech deficits …

Nonverbal Communication.

PA Soukup - Communication Research Trends, 2019 - search.ebscohost.com
The article focuses on studies of sign language, a specialized kind of nonverbal expression
and one intended to function as a language with defined grammar and vocabulary. It …

Use of co-verbal gestures during word-finding difficulty among Cantonese speakers with fluent aphasia and unimpaired controls

APH Kong, SP Law, CKY Cheung - Aphasiology, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Co-verbal gestures refer to hand or arm movements made during speaking.
Spoken language and gestures have been shown to be tightly integrated in human …