Co-speech hand movements during narrations: What is the impact of right vs. left hemisphere brain damage?

Hogrefe, Katharina; Rein, Robert; Skomroch, Harald; Lausberg, Hedda

doi:10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2016.10.015

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“…Our results add to the evidence that LHD individuals produce more gestures during speech impairment (e.g., Akhavan et al, 2017; Beland & Ska, 1992; De Ruiter, 2006; Hadar et al, 1998; Herrman et al, 1988; Hogrefe et al, 2016; Lanyon & Rose, 2009; Sekine & Rose, 2013) and support the claim that gesture and speech systems can operate with relative independence (Butterworth & Hadar, 1997; De Ruiter, 2000; Feyereisen, 1983; Kita & Özyürek, 2003; Lausberg et al, 2007). These findings are consistent with compensation models (e.g.…”

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“…Although both hemispheres contribute to the gesture production process, we observe left hemisphere dominance in the production of gestures that are tied to the conceptual processes and the communication of spatial information (see Hogrefe et al, 2016). This might be due to the suggestion that the left hemisphere is responsible for the conceptualization of representational gestures (Helmich & Lausberg, 2014).…”

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confidence: 81%

“…After focal brain injury, gesture might compensate for or facilitate speech in cases of verbal impairment (e.g., Ahlsén, 1991; Akhavan, Göksun, & Nozari, in press; Akhavan, Nozari, & Göksun, 2017; Cicone et al, 1979; Cocks, Hird, & Kirsner, 2007; Feyereisen, 1983; Glosser, Wiener, & Kaplan, 1986; Göksun, Lehet, Malykhina, & Chatterjee, 2015; Herrmann et al, 1988; Hogrefe, Ziegler, Weidinger, & Goldenberg, 2012; Lanyon & Rose, 2009; Pritchard, Dipper, Morgan, & Cocks, 2015; Scharp, Tompkins, & Iverson, 2007). Because most studies focus on people with injury to one or the other hemisphere and because they typically use different methods in their approach, it has been difficult to directly compare left and right hemispheres’ contributions to gesture-speech interactions (for a review, see Hogrefe, Rein, Skomroch, & Lausberg, 2016). …”

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“…Blonder et al, 1995; Göksun et al, 2015; Göksun, Lehet, Malykhina, & Chatterjee, 2013; Hadar, Burstein, Krauss, & Soroker, 1998; Hogrefe et al, 2016; Rousseaux, Daveluy, & Kozlowski, 2010). These studies have not settled uncertainties about relative importance of each hemisphere in co-speech gesture production.…”

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“…The importance of left hemisphere for tool-related and imitational gestures also provides support for this notion (Goldenberg & Randerath, 2015). Conversely, right hemisphere damage is associated with the deficits of rhythmic gestures (Blonder et al, 1995; Cocks et al, 2007; Hogrefe et al, 2016; Rousseaux et al, 2010) along with other nonverbal and non-motor aspects of communication such as intonation and prosody (Lausberg, Zaidel, Cruz, & Ptito, 2007; Shapiro & Danly, 1985). Right hemisphere damage has even been associated with reduced use of representational gestures (McNeill & Pedelty, 1995).…”

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The relationship between co-speech gesture production and macrolinguistic discourse abilities in people with focal brain injury

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Brain damage is associated with linguistic deficits and might alter co-speech gesture production. Gesture production after focal brain injury has been mainly investigated with respect to intrasentential rather than discourse-level linguistic processing. In this study, we examined 1) spontaneous gesture production patterns of people with left hemisphere damage (LHD) or right hemisphere damage (RHD) in a narrative setting, 2) the neural structures associated with deviations in spontaneous gesture production in these groups, and 3) the relationship between spontaneous gesture production and discourse level linguistic processes (narrative complexity and evaluation competence). Individuals with LHD or RHD (17 people in each group) and neurotypical controls (n = 13) narrated a story from a picture book. Results showed that increase in gesture production for LHD individuals was associated with less complex narratives and lesions of individuals who produced more gestures than neurotypical individuals overlapped in frontal-temporal structures and basal ganglia. Co-speech gesture production of RHD individuals positively correlated with their evaluation competence in narrative. Lesions of RHD individuals who produced more gestures overlapped in the superior temporal gyrus and the inferior parietal lobule. Overall, LHD individuals produced more gestures than neurotypical individuals. The groups did not differ in their use of different gesture forms except that LHD individuals produced more deictic gestures per utterance than RHD individuals and controls. Our findings are consistent with the hypothesis that co-speech gesture production interacts with macro-linguistic levels of discourse and this interaction is affected by the hemispheric lateralization of discourse abilities.

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