Speakers use spontaneous hand gestures as they speak and think. These gestures serve
many functions for speakers who produce them as well as for listeners who observe them …

Human communication combines language with gesture. Gesture contributes to the
uniquely human ability to communicate about an infinite number of ideas in an efficient way …

Understanding speech in background noise is challenging. Wearing face-masks, imposed
by the COVID19-pandemics, makes it even harder. We developed a multi-sensory setup …

In face-to-face communication, multimodal cues such as prosody, gestures, and mouth
movements can play a crucial role in language processing. While several studies have …

During communication in real-life settings, our brain often needs to integrate auditory and
visual information and at the same time actively focus on the relevant sources of information …

Instructional videos for teaching second language (L2) vocabulary often feature an instructor
onscreen. The instructor in the video may involuntarily produce beat gestures with their …

Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, covering the mouth region with a face mask became
pervasive in many regions of the world, potentially impacting how people communicate with …

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 …

Previous work has shown how native listeners benefit from observing iconic gestures during
speech comprehension tasks of both degraded and non-degraded speech. By contrast …

Gestures help speakers and listeners during communication and thinking, particularly for
visual-spatial information. Speakers tend to use gestures to complement the accompanying …