Iconic gesture-speech integration is a relatively recent field of investigation with numerous
researchers studying its various aspects. The results obtained are just as diverse. The …

When comprehending speech-in-noise (SiN), younger and older adults benefit from seeing
the speaker's mouth, ie visible speech. Younger adults additionally benefit from manual …

Ageing has effects both on language and gestural communication skills. Although gesture
use is similar between younger and older adults, the use of representational gestures (eg …

Acting, stand-up and dancing are creative, embodied performances that nonetheless follow
a script. Unless experimental or improvised, the performers draw their movements from …

The processing of semantically complex speech is a demanding task which can be
facilitated by speech-associated arm and hand gestures. However, the role of age …

Past research suggests listeners treat disfluencies as informative cues during spoken
language processing. For example, studies have shown that child and younger adult …

Starting as early as 10 months of age, gesturing is present in the communicative repertoire
of children, and later, around the age of two, it is integrated with speech, yielding multimodal …

Numerous studies have explored the benefit of iconic gestures in speech comprehension.
However, only few studies have investigated how visual attention was allocated to these …

A story comes to life when it is turned into a performance. Computational approaches to
storytelling have primarily focused on stories as textual artifacts and not as performances …

Gestures have been shown to enhance memory recall for children and adults, but little
research has investigated the benefits of gesturing to recall in older adult populations. While …