In the comparative study of human and nonhuman communication, ape gesturing provided
the first demonstrations of flexible, intentional communication outside human language. Rich …

Background Speakers with aphasia gesture, but the extent to which these gestures improve
their communication success is unclear. Aim The primary aim is to assess if gesture …

How do drawings—ranging from detailed illustrations to schematic diagrams—reliably
convey meaning? Do viewers understand drawings based on how strongly they resemble …

Due to the robust iconic potential of visual representations, gestural, and pantomimic
hypotheses of language origins are well suited to provide solutions to the bootstrapping …

Music and language are both forms of communication universally observed across human
societies, prompting researchers to investigate why and how they evolved. Such research …

Most current databases for bodily emotion expression are created in Western countries,
resulting in culturally skewed representations. To address the obvious risk this bias poses to …

This Element follows the development of humans in constantly changing climates and
environments from Homo erectus 1.9 million years ago, to fully modern humans who moved …

When humans speak or animals vocalize, they can produce sounds that are further
combined into larger sequences. The flexibility of sound combinations into larger meaningful …

The present chapter proposes a pantomimic account of language origin resting on a
persuasive/narrative conception of human communication. Relying on the twofold constraint …

Gestures are a convenient modality of conveying human intent in collaborative human-robot
tasks, and the pointing gesture is commonly used in pick-and-place tasks. But, it is hard to …