Most people in the United States know what GPS is.  It’s a data point that records your location on the Earth using satellites that orbit the planet.  In our personal lives we view this data in platforms such as […]

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In this paper, I will argue that although the study of
multimodal interaction offers exciting new prospects for
Human Computer Interaction and […]

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It is widely assumed that human learning and the structure of human languages are intimately related. This relationship is
frequently suggested to derive from a […]

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Universal Grammar (UG) is indeed evolutionarily implausible.
But if languages are just “adapted” to a large primate brain, it is hard to
see why other pri […]

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As Rose (2006) discusses in the lead article, two camps can be identified in the field of gesture research: those who believe
that gesticulation enhances […]

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Research topics in the field of speech-related gesture that have received con-
siderable attention are the function of gesture, its synchronization with
speech, […]

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A number of studies from the last decades have demonstrated that the iconic
gestures are shaped not only by our mental imagery but also, quite strong-
ly, by […]

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In this paper, I compare three different assumptions about the relationship
between speech, thought and gesture. These assumptions have profound conse-
quences […]

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Human communication is often thought about in terms of transmitted messages
in a conventional code like a language. But communication requires a […]

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Any model of motor control or sensorimotor transformations starts from an intention to
trigger a cascade of neural computations, yet how intentions themselves […]

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In this paper, we outline a cognitive architecture for communicators, called the BIC model. The model consist of three main components. First, a (B)iological […]

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Structural priming is a sufficient, but not a necessary condition for proving the existence of representations. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. […]

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Background: The background to this study is that aphasiologists have increasingly started
to pay attention not only to the speech that people with aphasia […]

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Currently, production and comprehension are regarded as quite distinct in accounts of language processing. In rejecting this
dichotomy, we instead assert that […]

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The rapid and fluent nature of human
communicative interactions strongly
suggests the existence of an online
mechanism for intention recognition. We
motivate and […]

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The tradeoff hypothesis in the speech–gesture relationship claims that (a) when gesturing gets
harder, speakers will rely relatively more on speech, and (b) w […]

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