During the first eighteen months of life, infants acquire and refine a whole set of new motor
skills that significantly change the ways in which the body moves in and interacts with the …

This article surveys the literature on human–robot object handovers. A handover is a
collaborative joint action, where an agent, the giver, gives an object to another agent, the …

Teaching and Researching Listening provides a focused, state-of-the-art treatment of the
linguistic, psycholinguistic and pragmatic processes that are involved in oral language use …

Is children's language acquisition based on innate linguistic structures or built from cognitive
and communicative skills? This book summarises the major theoretical debates in all of the …

One reason for the apparent gulf between animal and human communication systems is that
the focus has been on the presence or the absence of language as a complex expressive …

Gesture and speech are assumed to form an integrated system during language production.
Based on this view, we propose the integrated-systems hypothesis, which explains two ways …

The presence of divergent and independent research traditions in the gestural and vocal
domains of primate communication has resulted in major discrepancies in the definition and …

Left-handers are often excluded from study cohorts in neuroscience and neurogenetics in
order to reduce variance in the data. However, recent investigations have shown that the …

It is generally agreed that cognitive and language development are dependent on the
emergence of motor skills. As the literature on this issue concerning children with …

See Fink et al.(doi: 10.1093/aww034) for a scientific commentary on this article. Transcranial
direct current stimulation has shown promise to improve recovery in patients with post-stroke …