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The Role of Gesture in Communication and Cognition: Implications for Understanding and Treating Neurogenic Communication Disorders

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العنوان: The Role of Gesture in Communication and Cognition: Implications for Understanding and Treating Neurogenic Communication Disorders
المؤلفون: Sharice Clough, Melissa C. Duff
المصدر: Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, Vol 14 (2020)
بيانات النشر: Frontiers Media S.A., 2020.
سنة النشر: 2020
المجموعة: LCC:Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry
مصطلحات موضوعية: gesture, language, aphasia, traumatic brain injury, right hemisphere damage, Alzheimer’s disease, Neurosciences. Biological psychiatry. Neuropsychiatry, RC321-571
الوصف: When people talk, they gesture. Gesture is a fundamental component of language that contributes meaningful and unique information to a spoken message and reflects the speaker’s underlying knowledge and experiences. Theoretical perspectives of speech and gesture propose that they share a common conceptual origin and have a tightly integrated relationship, overlapping in time, meaning, and function to enrich the communicative context. We review a robust literature from the field of psychology documenting the benefits of gesture for communication for both speakers and listeners, as well as its important cognitive functions for organizing spoken language, and facilitating problem-solving, learning, and memory. Despite this evidence, gesture has been relatively understudied in populations with neurogenic communication disorders. While few studies have examined the rehabilitative potential of gesture in these populations, others have ignored gesture entirely or even discouraged its use. We review the literature characterizing gesture production and its role in intervention for people with aphasia, as well as describe the much sparser literature on gesture in cognitive communication disorders including right hemisphere damage, traumatic brain injury, and Alzheimer’s disease. The neuroanatomical and behavioral profiles of these patient populations provide a unique opportunity to test theories of the relationship of speech and gesture and advance our understanding of their neural correlates. This review highlights several gaps in the field of communication disorders which may serve as a bridge for applying the psychological literature of gesture to the study of language disorders. Such future work would benefit from considering theoretical perspectives of gesture and using more rigorous and quantitative empirical methods in its approaches. We discuss implications for leveraging gesture to explore its untapped potential in understanding and rehabilitating neurogenic communication disorders.
نوع الوثيقة: article
وصف الملف: electronic resource
اللغة: English
تدمد: 1662-5161
Relation: https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fnhum.2020.00323/full; https://doaj.org/toc/1662-5161
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.00323
URL الوصول: https://doaj.org/article/6e67b4892c2943c2916843f6d7bea3e1
رقم الانضمام: edsdoj.6e67b4892c2943c2916843f6d7bea3e1
قاعدة البيانات: Directory of Open Access Journals
الوصف
تدمد:16625161
DOI:10.3389/fnhum.2020.00323