"Slight" of hand: the processing of visually degraded gestures with speech.

Co-speech hand gestures influence language comprehension. The present experiment explored what part of the visual processing system is optimized for processing these gestures. Participants viewed short video clips of speech and gestures (e.g., a person saying "chop" or "twist" wh...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Spencer D Kelly, Bruce C Hansen, David T Clark
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2012-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3415388?pdf=render