Abundant research has shown that encoding meaningful gesture, such as an iconic gesture,
enhances memory. This paper asked whether gesture needs to carry meaning to improve …

Interlocutors sometimes repeat each other's co-speech hand gestures. In three experiments,
we investigate to what extent the copying of such gestures' form is tied to their meaning in …

In a natural setting, speech is often accompanied by gestures. As language, speech-
accompanying iconic gestures to some extent convey semantic information. However, if …

Gesture is integral to human language. Its function within human communication is as much
goal-directed, and subsequently as communicative, as is speech. Indeed, gesture and …

Using a referent detection paradigm, we examined whether listeners can determine the
object speakers are referring to by using the temporal alignment between the motion …

This paper explores how na? ve observers recognize and interpret transitive actions (actions
involving manipulation of objects) without accompanying speech, in order to derive …

One of the most important conditions for the adequacy of communication process is, as it's
well known, the intentionality, by which the information between transmitter and receiver …

Questa rassegna si propone di presentare i principali lavori nell'ambito della ricerca sui
gesti delle mani attraverso il confronto dei risultati sia degli studi che si pongono l'obiettivo di …