Neural integration of speech and gesture in schizophrenia: Evidence for differential processing of metaphoric gestures

• Published in: Human brain mapping Vol. 34; no. 7; pp. 1696 - 1712
• Main Authors: Straube, Benjamin, Green, Antonia, Sass, Katharina, Kirner-Veselinovic, André, Kircher, Tilo
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hoboken Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company 01.07.2013; Wiley-Liss; John Wiley & Sons, Inc
• Subjects: Adult; Biological and medical sciences; Brain - blood supply; co-verbal gestures; Communication Disorders - etiology; Female; Functional Laterality; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Gestures; Humans; iconic gestures; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted; integration; Investigative techniques, diagnostic techniques (general aspects); Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Medical sciences; Memory - physiology; Metaphor; metaphoric gestures; Middle Aged; Nervous system; Neuropsychological Tests; Oxygen - blood; Perception; Photic Stimulation; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Radiodiagnosis. Nmr imagery. Nmr spectrometry; schizophrenia; Schizophrenia - complications; Schizophrenia - pathology; Speech - physiology; Vision; Young Adult; Psychosis; Nervous system diseases; metaphoric gestures; Radiodiagnosis; co-verbal gestures; Schizophrenia; iconic gestures; integration; Speech; Neural integration

Gestures are an important component of interpersonal communication. Especially, complex multimodal communication is assumed to be disrupted in patients with schizophrenia. In healthy subjects, differential neural integration processes for gestures in the context of concrete [iconic (IC) gestures] an...