During language comprehension, listeners use the global semantic representation from
previous sentence or discourse context to immediately integrate the meaning of each …

The present study examined the neural correlates of speech and hand gesture
comprehension in a naturalistic context. Fifteen participants watched audiovisual segments …

Recent research suggests that the brain routinely binds together information from gesture
and speech. However, most of this research focused on the integration of representational …

People routinely hear and understand speech at rates of 120–200 words per minute [1, 2].
Thus, speech comprehension must involve rapid, online neural mechanisms that process …

Everyday communication is accompanied by visual information from several sources,
including co‐speech gestures, which provide semantic information listeners use to help …

As we speak, we use not only the arbitrary form–meaning mappings of the speech channel
but also motivated form–meaning correspondences, ie iconic gestures that accompany …

A central and influential idea among researchers of language is that our language faculty is
organized according to Fregean compositionality, which states that the meaning of an …

Everyday conversation requires listeners to quickly recognize verbal actions, so-called
speech acts, from the underspecified linguistic code and prepare a relevant response within …

Communication is facilitated when listeners allocate their attention to important information
(focus) in the message, a process called “information structure.” Linguistic cues like the …

We present a new technique for studying the activation of semantic and phonological codes
in speech planning using event-related brain potentials (ERPs) that extend a well …