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 …

Visual information conveyed by iconic hand gestures and visible speech can enhance
speech comprehension under adverse listening conditions for both native and non‐native …

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

EEG was recorded as adults watched short segments of spontaneous discourse in which the
speaker's gestures and utterances contained complementary information. Videos were …

Gesture and speech are assumed to form an integrated system during language production.
Based on this view, we propose the integrated-systems hypothesis, which explains two ways …

Purpose This study investigated whether and to what extent iconic co-speech gestures
contribute to information from visible speech to enhance degraded speech comprehension …

Comprehension and production of text and discourse do not solely depend on linguistic
expressions, but also on the physical context. The questions addressed in this study are 1) …

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 …

In everyday communication, semantic information is transmitted by both speech and the
gestures that accompany speech. Listeners, therefore, need to monitor two quite different …

Speech and gesture are two vital components of communication. Gesture itself provides an
external support to speech, potentially promoting comprehension of a spoken message. The …