Gesture facilitates the syntactic analysis of speech

Recent research suggests that the brain routinely binds together information from gesture and speech. However, most of this research focused on the integration of representational gestures with the semantic content of speech. Much less is known about how other aspects of gesture, such as emphasis, i...

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Main Authors: Henning eHolle, Christian eObermeier, Maren eSchmidt-Kassow, Angela Dorkas Friederici, Jamie eWard, Thomas C Gunter
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2012-03-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00074/full