Beat gestures and speech processing: when prosody extends to the speaker's hands

Speakers naturally accompany their speech with hand gestures and extend the auditory prosody to visual modality through rapid beat gestures that help them to structure their narrative and emphasize relevant information. The present thesis aimed to investigate beat gestures and their neural correlate...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Biau, Emmanuel, 1985-
Other Authors: Soto-Faraco, Salvador
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Universitat Pompeu Fabra 2015
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10803/325429