Abstract Language behaviour is complex, but neuroscientific evidence disentangles it into
distinct components supported by dedicated brain areas or networks. In this Review, we …

Natural human interaction requires us to produce and process many different signals,
including speech, hand and head gestures, and facial expressions. These communicative …

In a conversation, recognising the speaker's social action (eg, a request) early may help the
potential following speakers understand the intended message quickly, and plan a timely …

During face-to-face communication, recipients need to rapidly integrate a plethora of
auditory and visual signals. This integration of signals from many different bodily articulators …

In the last decade, a growing body of work has convincingly demonstrated that languages
embed a certain degree of non-arbitrariness (mostly in the form of iconicity, namely the …

In face-to-face conversation, recipients might use the bodily movements of the speaker (eg
gestures) to facilitate language processing. It has been suggested that one way through …

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 …

This study aimed to investigate the psychophysiological markers of imagery processes
through EEG/ERP recordings. Visual and auditory stimuli representing 10 different semantic …

In an interesting paper, Casasanto, Daniel & Tom Gijssels. 2015. What makes a metaphor
an embodied metaphor? Linguistics Vanguard 1 (1). 327–337 introduce a skeptical view of …

Previous work has shown how native listeners benefit from observing iconic gestures during
speech comprehension tasks of both degraded and non-degraded speech. By contrast …