In face-to-face conversation, people convey meaning multimodally, including speech and hand gestures. Previous work showed that comprehenders can use gestures to predict utterance content, but it i...

Action Categorization. Volume 59, Issue 1 of Research on Language and Social Interaction

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Researchers now have fascinating insights into how our brains function while we communicate — and our hand gestures hold the key.

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Counting practices and actions: Coding social interaction. Volume 58, Issue 3 of Research on Language and Social Interaction

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During conversation, speakers coordinate and synergize their behaviors at multiple levels, and in different ways. The extent to which individuals converge or diverge in their behaviors during inter...

When engaged in spoken conversation, speakers convey meaning using both speech and visual signals, such as facial expressions and manual gestures. An important question is how information is distri...

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In face-to-face conversation, people use speech and gesture to convey meaning. Seeing gestures alongside speech facilitates comprehenders’ language processing, ...

During conversation, speakers coordinate and synergize their behaviors at multiple levels, and in different ways. The extent to which individuals converge or diverge in their behaviors during inter...

Meaningful gestures enhance degraded speech comprehension in neurotypical adults, but it is unknown whether this is the case for neurodivergent populations, suc...

Scientific Data - The ECOLANG Multimodal Corpus of adult-child and adult-adult Language

Face-to-face communication is not only about ‘what’ is said but also ‘how’ it is said, both in speech and bodily signals. Beat gestures are rhythmic h…

When someone is under stress, a stronger communication takes place between the brain and muscles. This is according to research by neuroscientist Yvonne Visser of Radboud University.