Gaze—where one looks, how long, and when—plays an essential part in human social
behavior. While many aspects of social gaze have been reviewed, there is no …

It has been suggested that the evolution of language might be “the hardest problem in
science”(Christiansen & Kirby, 2003, p. 1). Part of the difficulty is that language has long …

The Recursive Mind challenges the commonly held notion that language is what makes us
uniquely human. In this compelling book, Michael Corballis argues that what distinguishes …

An eye-tracking experiment investigated where deaf native signers (N= 9) and hearing
beginning signers (N= 10) look while comprehending a short narrative and a spatial …

Evolutionary science has long viewed language as, basically, a fortunate accident—a
crossing of wires that happened to be extraordinarily useful, setting humans apart from other …

We used Goldmann kinetic perimetry to compare how training and congenital auditory
deprivation may affect the size of the visual field. We measured the ability of action video …

Autistic people face many challenges in various aspects of daily life such as social skills,
repetitive behaviors, speech, and verbal communication. They feel hesitant to talk with …

There is no doubt that gestures are communicative and can be integrated online with
speech. Little is known, however, about the nature of this process, for example, its …

Other-initiated repair is an essential interactional practice to secure mutual understanding in
everyday interaction. This article presents evidence from a large conversational corpus of a …

Natural languages come in two different modalities. The impact of modality on the
grammatical structure and linguistic theory has been discussed at great length in the last 20 …