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 …

Gesture is an integral part of language development. While recent evidence shows that
observing a speaker who is simultaneously producing beat gestures helps preschoolers …

Listeners are sensitive to speakers' co-speech iconic gestures. Concurrent visual and verbal
information compete for attentional resources during multimodal comprehension. The …

Speakers produce both referential gestures, which depict properties of a referent, and non-
referential gestures, which lack semantic content. While a large number of studies have …

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 …

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 …

This study investigated whether seeing iconic gestures depicting verb referents promotes
two types of generalization. We taught 3‐to 4‐year‐olds novel locomotion verbs. Children …

This study investigated the extent to which different pedagogical gestures contribute to
learners' foreign or second language (L2) narrative recall, and further discussed how task …