On-line Integration of Semantic Information from Speech and Gesture: Insights from Event-related Brain Potentials

• Published in: Journal of cognitive neuroscience Vol. 19; no. 4; pp. 605 - 616
• Main Authors: Özyürek, Aslı, Willems, Roel M., Kita, Sotaro, Hagoort, Peter
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA MIT Press 01.04.2007; MIT Press Journals, The
• Subjects: Adult; Behavioral psychophysiology; Biological and medical sciences; Brain; Brain research; Cognition & reasoning; Comprehension; Comprehension - physiology; Electrophysiology; Evoked Potentials - physiology; Evoked Responses; Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Gestures; Humans; Iconicity; Integration; Language; Language Tests; Male; Neurosciences; Nonverbal Communication; Production and perception of spoken language; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Semantic Processing; Semantics; Speech Perception - physiology; Visual Perception - physiology; Human; Verbal comprehension; Information integration; Central nervous system; Electrophysiology; Cognition; Encephalon; Language; Semantics; Gesture; Insight; Speech; Event evoked potential

During language comprehension, listeners use the global semantic representation from previous sentence or discourse context to immediately integrate the meaning of each upcoming word into the unfolding message-level representation. Here we investigate whether communicative gestures that often sponta...