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Electrophysiological evidence for the enhancement of gesture-speech integration by linguistic predictability during multimodal discourse comprehension
In face-to-face discourse, listeners exploit cues in the input to generate predictions about upcoming words. Moreover, in addition to speech,...
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Parental Speech and Gesture Input to Girls Versus Boys in Singletons and Twins
Children show sex differences in early speech development, with girls producing a greater number and variety of words at an earlier age than boys...
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Construing events first-hand: Gesture viewpoints interact with speech to shape the attribution and memory of agency
Beyond conveying objective content about objects and actions, what can co-speech iconic gestures reveal about a speaker’s subjective relationship to...
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The Role of Representational Gestures and Speech Synchronicity in Auditory Input by L2 and L1 Speakers
Speech and gesture are two integrated and temporally coordinated systems. Manual gestures can help second language (L2) speakers with vocabulary...
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Motion capture-based animated characters for the study of speech–gesture integration
Digitally animated characters are promising tools in research studying how we integrate information from speech and visual sources such as gestures...
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Interpretations of meaningful and ambiguous hand gestures in autistic and non-autistic adults: A norming study
Gestures are ubiquitous in human communication, and a growing but inconsistent body of research suggests that people with autism spectrum disorder...
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Using pointing gestures to convey tactical information: investigating the roles of expertise and complexity
Coach’s speech and pointing gestures are closely related. However, the question of whether the coach’s pointing gestures influence the learning of...
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The role of hand gestures in emotion communication: Do type and size of gestures matter?
We communicate emotions in a multimodal way, yet non-verbal emotion communication is a relatively understudied area of research. In three...
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The Transition from Early Bimodal Gesture-Word Combinations to Grammatical Speech
Among the first baby communications, we find the bimodal collaborations of gesture and word. In this chapter, we present some considerations on the...
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Observations on the Progression of Gestures with L2 Proficiency: A Call for Further Research
Gestures in learners of second languages (L2) are still an understudied field. Most studies comparing the same individuals gesturing in their L2 and...
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The Impact of a Human Figure in a Scene on Spatial Descriptions in Speech, Gesture, and Gesture Alone
The presence of a human figure in a scene appears to change how people describe it. About 20% of participants take the human figure’s viewpoint...
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Multisensory integration of musical emotion perception in singing
We investigated how visual and auditory information contributes to emotion communication during singing. Classically trained singers applied two...
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Audiovisual perception of interrupted speech by nonnative listeners
The purpose of the present study was to examine the influence of visual cues in audiovisual perception of interrupted speech by nonnative English...
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Aging and working memory modulate the ability to benefit from visible speech and iconic gestures during speech-in-noise comprehension
When comprehending speech-in-noise (SiN), younger and older adults benefit from seeing the speaker’s mouth, i.e. visible speech. Younger adults...
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Inner Speech Processes Experienced in a Group Piano Lesson
This paper presents the analysis of an interactive episode in a Group Piano lesson for children, which was intended to identify and understand the...
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Gesture links language and cognition for spoken and signed languages
Human communication combines language with gesture. Gesture contributes to the uniquely human ability to communicate about an infinite number of...
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The multimodal facilitation effect in human communication
During face-to-face communication, recipients need to rapidly integrate a plethora of auditory and visual signals. This integration of signals from...
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Give your ideas a hand: the role of iconic hand gestures in enhancing divergent creative thinking
Hand gestures play an integral role in multimodal language and communication. Even though the self-oriented functions of gestures, such as activating...
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AAC & Literacy: A Sco** Review of Print Knowledge Measures for Students who use Aided Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Understanding the early literacy abilities of children who use augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) is essential for designing and...
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No gesture too small: An investigation into the ability of gestural information to mislead eyewitness accounts by 5- to 8-year-olds
The accuracy of eyewitness interviews has legal and clinical implications within the criminal justice system. Leading verbal suggestions have been...
