ArticleBrain and cognition2020
Verbal working memory and co-speech gesture processing.
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- From "I dance" to "she danced" with a flick of the hands: Audiovisual stress perception in Spanish.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
- Spatial working memory is critical for gesture processing: Evidence from gestures with varying semantic links to speech.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2025Article
- Automatic Speech-Gesture Integration in Autistic Children: The Role of Gesture Semantic Activation.Journal of autism and developmental disorders · 2025Article
- Deliberate synchronization of speech and gesture: Effects of neurodiversity and development.Language and cognition · 2024Article
- The Processing of Semantic Complexity and Cospeech Gestures in Schizophrenia: A Naturalistic, Multimodal fMRI Study.Schizophrenia bulletin open · 2022Article
- The Role of Iconic Gestures in Speech Comprehension: An Overview of Various Methodologies.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
- Covert Attention to Gestures Is Sufficient for Information Uptake.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
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Abstract
Multimodal discourse requires an assembly of cognitive processes that are uniquely recruited for language comprehension in social contexts. In this study, we investigated the role of verbal working memory for the online integration of speech and iconic gestures. Participants memorized and rehearsed a series of auditorily presented digits in low (one digit) or high (four digits) memory load conditions. To observe how verbal working memory load impacts online discourse comprehension, ERPs were recorded while participants watched discourse videos containing either congruent or incongruent speech-gesture combinations during the maintenance portion of the memory task. While expected speech-gesture congruity effects were found in the low memory load condition, high memory load trials elicited enhanced frontal positivities that indicated a unique interaction between online speech-gesture integration and the availability of verbal working memory resources. This work contributes to an understanding of discourse comprehension by demonstrating that language processing in a multimodal context is subject to the relationship between cognitive resource availability and the degree of controlled processing required for task performance. We suggest that verbal working memory is less important for speech-gesture integration than it is for mediating speech processing under high task demands.
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