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Integration of speech and gesture: Neurophysiological investigation

Reference	BBS/B/08906/2
Principal Investigator / Supervisor	Professor Sotaro Kita
Co-Investigators / Co-Supervisors
Institution	University of Birmingham
Department	School of Psychology
Funding type	Research
Value (£)	25,752
Status	Completed
Type	Research Grant
Start date	01/01/2007
End date	31/03/2008
Duration	15 months

Abstract

In ordinary conversation, people produce hand gestures that express meanings related to the information encoded in the concurrent speech. The listener integrates the information provided in speech and gesture to form a unified interpretation. The proposed project investigates this multimodal integration of auditory and visual information during simultaneous comprehension of speech and gesture. Four experiments with electrophysiological recordings (ERPs) and one experiment involving fMRI are proposed. The results of these experiments will not only shed light on how the brain deals with the multimodal nature of human communication, but will also further our understanding of information binding in the brain across input modalities.

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Committee	Closed Committee - Animal Sciences (AS)
Research Topics	X – not assigned to a current Research Topic
Research Priority	X – Research Priority information not available
Research Initiative	X - not in an Initiative
Funding Scheme	X – not Funded via a specific Funding Scheme

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BBS/B/08906 Integration of speech and gesture: Neurophysiological investigation

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