Gestures serve many functions, including aiding language access and message
construction, particularly in spatial tasks. Some researchers have argued that gesture …

The Information Packaging Hypothesis (IPH; Kita, 2000) holds that gesture helps speakers
package information into units appropriate for verbalization. When information packaging is …

A taxonomy of hand gestures and a digital tool (CodGest) are proposed in order to describe
different types of gesture used by speaker during speech in different social contexts. It is an …

Background: The assessment and rehabilitation of acquired neurogenic communication
disorders rarely involves a systematic analysis of gesture use. The right cerebral …

Several investigators, including speech–language pathologists have examined the
hypothesis that the production of a gesture can facilitate word retrieval, in healthy speakers …

Why do we gesture when we speak? The Cognitive Psychology of Speech-Related Gesture
offers answers to this question while introducing readers to the huge interdisciplinary field of …

Este trabajo analiza el grado de conciencia e intencionalidad que poseen los docentes de
secundaria sobre sus mecanismos comunicacionales, verbales y no-verbales, orientados a …

This chapter focuses on all four categories of co-speech gesture such as iconic, metaphoric,
deictic, and beat. It reviews the impact of aging on general language and cognitive abilities …

This paper addresses the challenge of transferring the behavior expressivity style of a virtual
agent to another one while preserving behaviors shape as they carry communicative …

Background Ageing refers to the natural and physiological changes that individuals
experience over the years. This process also involves modifications in terms of …