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

We examined the cognitive resources involved in processing speech with gesture compared
to the same speech without gesture across four studies using a dual-task paradigm …

This paper aims to determine whether iconic tracing gestures produced while speaking
constitute part of the speaker's communicative intention. We used a picture description task …

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 research suggests that speakers gesture more when they are describing
information learned in a visuo-spatial format than when describing information learned in a …

This study examined spatial story representations created by speaker's cohesive gestures.
Participants were presented with three-sentence discourse with two protagonists. In the first …

Do speakers gesture to benefit their listeners? This study examined whether speakers use
gestures differently when those gestures have the potential to communicate and when they …

Visibility of speakers' conversational hand gestures has been shown to facilitate listeners'
comprehension. Is this true for all types of gestures? In Experiment 1, speakers were …

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 …

Communication is shaped both by what we are trying to say and by whom we are saying it
to. We examined whether and how shared information influences the gestures speakers …