ReviewFrontiers in human neuroscience2020
The Role of Gesture in Communication and Cognition: Implications for Understanding and Treating Neurogenic Communication Disorders.
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- Embodied Speech: Sensorimotor Contributions to Native and Non-Native Phoneme Processing and Learning.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Review
- A Scoping Review on Conversational Memory and Characteristics of Conversations in Alzheimer's Disease.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2025Article
- Validating nonverbal cues for assessing physician empathy in telemedicine: a Delphi study.Medical education online · 2025Article
- Hand function in immune-mediated inflammatory rheumatic diseases: assessment and rehabilitation approaches.Rheumatology international · 2025Review
- A richly annotated dataset of co-speech hand gestures across diverse speaker contexts.Scientific data · 2025Article
- Multiparty Communication: A New Direction in Characterizing the Impact of Traumatic Brain Injury on Social Communication.American journal of speech-language pathology · 2025Review
- Designing socially assistive robots for clinical practice: insights from an asynchronous remote community of speech-language pathologists.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2025Article
- Treatment of aphasia in linguistically diverse populations: current and future directions.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Review
- Reduced on-line speech gesture integration during multimodal language processing in adults with moderate-severe traumatic brain injury: Evidence from eye-tracking.Cortex; a journal devoted to the study of the nervous system and behavior · 2024Article
- Tact Training with Augmentative Gestural Support for Language Disorder and Challenging Behaviors: A Case Study in an Italian Community-Based Setting.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- Attentional Orienting and Disfluency-Related Memory Boost Are Intact in Adults With Moderate-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2024Article
- Give your ideas a hand: the role of iconic hand gestures in enhancing divergent creative thinking.Psychological research · 2024Article
- Infants who develop autism show smaller inventories of deictic and symbolic gestures at 12 months of age.Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research · 2024Article
- Haptic Sensing and Feedback Techniques toward Virtual Reality.Research (Washington, D.C.) · 2024Review
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Abstract
When people talk, they gesture. Gesture is a fundamental component of language that contributes meaningful and unique information to a spoken message and reflects the speaker's underlying knowledge and experiences. Theoretical perspectives of speech and gesture propose that they share a common conceptual origin and have a tightly integrated relationship, overlapping in time, meaning, and function to enrich the communicative context. We review a robust literature from the field of psychology documenting the benefits of gesture for communication for both speakers and listeners, as well as its important cognitive functions for organizing spoken language, and facilitating problem-solving, learning, and memory. Despite this evidence, gesture has been relatively understudied in populations with neurogenic communication disorders. While few studies have examined the rehabilitative potential of gesture in these populations, others have ignored gesture entirely or even discouraged its use. We review the literature characterizing gesture production and its role in intervention for people with aphasia, as well as describe the much sparser literature on gesture in cognitive communication disorders including right hemisphere damage, traumatic brain injury, and Alzheimer's disease. The neuroanatomical and behavioral profiles of these patient populations provide a unique opportunity to test theories of the relationship of speech and gesture and advance our understanding of their neural correlates. This review highlights several gaps in the field of communication disorders which may serve as a bridge for applying the psychological literature of gesture to the study of language disorders. Such future work would benefit from considering theoretical perspectives of gesture and using more rigorous and quantitative empirical methods in its approaches. We discuss implications for leveraging gesture to explore its untapped potential in understanding and rehabilitating neurogenic communication disorders.
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