Background Representations of objects and actions in everyday speech are usually
materialized as nouns and verbs, two grammatical classes that constitute the core elements …

Gestures accompany speech and enrich human communication. When aphasia interferes
with verbal abilities, gestures become even more relevant, compensating for and/or …

Two aphasic subjects with moderate-severe limb apraxia were enrolled in a sign/gesture
training programme to investigate the effect of limb apraxia on the acquisition of manual …

Patterns of speech-related (“coverbal”) gestures were investigated in two groups of right-
handed, brain-damaged patients and in matched controls. One group of patients (" ldquo; …

The processing of words and pictures representing actions and objects was tested in 21
aphasic patients and 20 healthy controls across three word production tasks: picture-naming …

Spontaneous communicative hand-arm gestures were evaluated in elderly patients with
probable Alzheimer's disease (AD) and healthy controls (NC). Based on the notion that …

The issue of the relationship between language and gesture processing and the partial
overlap of their neural representations is of fundamental importance to neurology …

Hypotheses about the emergence of human cognitive abilities postulate strong evolutionary
links between language and praxis, including the possibility that language was originally …

Recent studies have shown that the systematic and repetitive observation of actions
belonging to the experiential human motor repertoire without verbal facilitation enhances the …

This study focuses on the controversial issue of the integrity of gestural communication
abilities in subjects with aphasia. To define the ability of subjects to interpret symbolic …