Iconic gesture-speech integration is a relatively recent field of investigation with numerous
researchers studying its various aspects. The results obtained are just as diverse. The …

Iconic gestures are spontaneous hand movements that illustrate certain contents of speech
and, as such, are an important part of face-to-face communication. This experiment targets …

Recent research on the neural integration of speech and gesture has examined either
gesture in the context of concrete [iconic (IC) gestures] or abstract sentence content …

In everyday conversation, listeners often rely on a speaker's gestures to clarify any
ambiguities in the verbal message. Using fMRI during naturalistic story comprehension, we …

This experiment investigates the integration of gesture and speech from a multisensory
perspective. In a disambiguation paradigm, participants were presented with short videos of …

Speech-accompanying gestures constitute one information channel during communication.
Some have argued that processing gestures engages the brain regions that support …

EEG was recorded as adults watched short segments of spontaneous discourse in which the
speaker's gestures and utterances contained complementary information. Videos were …

The present series of experiments explores several issues related to gesture–speech
integration and synchrony during sentence processing. To be able to more precisely …

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 …

During face-to-face communication, one does not only hear speech but also see a speaker's
communicative hand movements. It has been shown that such hand gestures play an …