Understanding the import of laughter, has interested philosophers and literary scholars for
millennia and, more recently, psychologists, biologists, neuroscientists, and linguists …

We live in a world where there are countless interactions with computer systems in every-
day situations. In the most ideal case, this interaction feels as familiar and as natural as the …

Domestication shaped wolves into dogs and transformed both their behavior and their
anatomy. Here we show that, in only 33,000 y, domestication transformed the facial muscle …

This article reports on a comparative analysis of accentuation strategies within Italian and
Dutch noun phrases (NPs). Its goal is not only to gain insight into what speakers do, but also …

This article addresses two related questions regarding the perception of facial markers of
prominence in spoken utterances:(1) how important are visual cues to prominence from the …

Social interaction involves the active visual perception of facial expressions and
communicative gestures. This study examines the distribution of gaze fixations while …

Many studies have documented a close timing relationship between speech prosody and co-
speech gesture, but some studies have not, and it is unclear whether these differences in …

In a study of optical cues to the visual perception of stress, three American English talkers
spoke words that differed in lexical stress and sentences that differed in phrasal stress, while …

This study investigates how epistemic stance is encoded and perceived in face-to-face
communication when language is regarded as comprised by speech and gesture. Two …

In accordance with the global trend, in The Netherlands approximately 45% of the
population is overweight. Existing studies show that patient self-management can reduce …