Gestures during speaking are typically understood in a representational framework: they
represent absent or distal states of affairs by means of pointing, resemblance, or symbolic …

The view put forward here is that visual bodily signals play a core role in human
communication and the coordination of minds. Critically, this role goes far beyond referential …

Nonhuman great apes inform one another in ways that can seem very humanlike. Especially
in the gestural domain, their behavior exhibits many similarities with human communication …

It is now widely accepted that the brunt of animal communication is conducted via several
modalities, eg acoustic and visual, either simultaneously or sequentially. This is a laudable …

Recent research on conversational information seeking (CIS) mostly focuses on uni-modal
interactions and information items. This per-spective paper highlights the importance of …

Human language is thought to have evolved from non-linguistic communication systems
present in the primate lineage. Scientists rely on data from extant primate species to …

Face-to-face communication is multimodal at its core: it consists of a combination of vocal
and visual signalling. However, current evidence suggests that, in the absence of an …

Investigating in depth the mechanisms underlying human and non‐human primate
intentional communication systems (involving gestures, vocalisations, facial expressions …

Human joint action is inherently cooperative, manifested in the collaborative efforts of
participants to minimize communicative trouble through interactive repair. Although …

ABSTRACT A critical feature of language is that the form of words need not bear any
perceptual similarity to their function–these relationships can be 'arbitrary'. The capacity to …