This paper investigates the influence of gestures on foreign language (FL) vocabulary
learning. In this work, we first address the state of the art in the field and then delve into the …

In face-to-face communication, multimodal cues such as prosody, gestures, and mouth
movements can play a crucial role in language processing. While several studies have …

Gestures are ubiquitous in human communication, and a growing but inconsistent body of
research suggests that people with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may process co-speech …

Conventional desktop applications provide users with hotkeys as shortcuts for triggering
different functionality. In this paper we consider what constitutes an effective parallel to …

Previous studies using intermodal semantic priming have found that gestures improve
language memory. In the present study, we ask whether the inherent characteristics of …

Performing an action symbolic of a word during encoding aids memory for the word, relative
to reading it. This subject-performed task (SPT) is known as the enactment effect. Observing …

Children with developmental language disorder show significantly lower word-learning
performance than typically developing age-matched children do. Although gesture is used to …

Face-to-face communication is multimodal. It comprises a plethora of linguistic and non-
linguistic cues, such as gestures, face and body movements, eye gaze, and prosody, that …