It is often said that speech is what distinguishes us from other animals. But are we all talk? What if language was bequeathed to us not by word of mouth, but as a hand-me-down?The …
Music is possessed by all human cultures, and archaeological evidence for musical activities pre-dates even the earliest known cave art. Music has been the subject of keen …
I Morley - Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 2014 - ora.ox.ac.uk
Archaeological evidence for musical activities pre-dates even the earliest-known cave art and it remains the case that no human culture has yet been encountered that does not …
Language is more than words. Much of the information conveyed in face-to-face conversation is carried in channels other than the lexical stream alone. Two such channels …
P Feyereisen, I Havard - Journal of nonverbal behavior, 1999 - Springer
Speech and conversational hand gestures were recorded during interviews of 23 younger (M= 21 years) and 19 older adults (M= 70 years). Three kinds of questions were used in …
This volume examines pointing gestures from a multidisciplinary viewpoint. Pointing has captured the interest of scholars from different disciplines who study communication …
ML Rose - Advances in Speech Language Pathology, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
People with aphasia frequently rely on communicative “devices” other than their impaired language system. This article focuses on arm and hand gesture as one such “device” or …
This study examined the influence of 3 different types of concurrent tasks on speech motor performance. The goal was to uncover potential differences in speech movements relating to …
The Design of Future Educational Interfaces provides a new multidisciplinary synthesis of educational interface research. It explains how computer interfaces can be redesigned to …