Judith Holler

My research interest is multimodal communication, with a focus on co-speech gestures. In particular, I am interested in how communicative intent and the pragmatics of conversation influence gesture use and the interplay between gesture and speech, as well as how social cues and context may modulate the perception and communicativeness of co-speech gestures and their integration with speech. I study both gesture production and comprehension primarily using experimental approaches. The goal of my research is to illuminate core aspects of human language, social interaction and cognition.

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