Gestures are central to human cognition and constitute a pervasive element of human
communication across cultures; even congenitally blind individuals use gestures when they …

Speakers often gesture in telephone conversations, even though they are not visible to their
addressees. To test whether this effect is due to being in a dialogue, we separated visibility …

What type of mental representation underlies the gestures that accompany speech? We
used a dual-task paradigm to compare the demands gesturing makes on visuospatial and …

People with aphasia frequently rely on communicative “devices” other than their impaired
language system. This article focuses on arm and hand gesture as one such “device” or …

Gestures are an important part of interpersonal communication, for example by illustrating
physical properties of speech contents (eg,“the ball is round”). The meaning of these so …

People gesture a great deal when speaking, and research has shown that listeners can
interpret the information contained in gesture. The current research examines whether …

Background: Arm and hand gesture has been considered a potential facilitator of word
production (Skelly, Schinsky, Smith, & Fust, 1974), and gesture is often considered as a …

Background: Conveying instructions is an everyday use of language, and gestures are likely
to be a key feature of this. Although co-speech iconic gestures are tightly integrated with …

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; …

Three experiments tested the role of verbal versus visuo-spatial working memory in the
comprehension of co-speech iconic gestures. In Experiment 1, participants viewed …