This research is aimed at comparing the benefit of visible speech alone and that of gestures alone separately in disambiguating speech in noise and to determine how these benefits relate to the benefit of having both visual ...

In natural communication, humans mostly focus on the speaker’s face and devote very little visual attention to gestures, which play a significant role in language comprehension. To date, explicit attention to gestures has ...

Human face-to-face communication entails the rapid integration of auditory as well as visual signals. For this thesis, we examined whether such a multimodal context offers a benefit during language processing and, in ...