Speakers use spontaneous hand gestures as they speak and think. These gestures serve
many functions for speakers who produce them as well as for listeners who observe them …

Iconic gesture-speech integration is a relatively recent field of investigation with numerous
researchers studying its various aspects. The results obtained are just as diverse. The …

Decades of research have established that learners benefit when instruction includes hand
gestures. This benefit is seen when learners watch an instructor gesture, as well as when …

Speech-accompanying gestures constitute one information channel during communication.
Some have argued that processing gestures engages the brain regions that support …

We communicate emotions in a multimodal way, yet non-verbal emotion communication is a
relatively understudied area of research. In three experiments, we investigated the role of …

An astounding account of how gesture, long overlooked, is essential to how we learn and
interact, which “changes the way you think about yourself and the people around …

Social robots are receiving an ever-increasing interest in popular media and scientific
literature. Yet, empirical evaluation of the educational use of social robots remains limited. In …

This study examined (a) how observing different types of gestures while listening to a story
affected the recall of path and event information in 5-year-old children (n= 71) and adults (n …

Abstract Language and perception are two central cognitive systems. Until relatively
recently, however, the interaction between them has been examined only partially and not …

Dialogic reading during shared book reading between adults and children is an effective
way to promote vocabulary acquisition. However, there is limited research on what …