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Ruiter, J.P. de 2017 Chapter 4. The asymmetric redundancy of gesture and speech Why Gesture?: How the hands function in speaking, thinking and communicating, Church, Ruth Breckinridge, Martha W. Alibali and Spencer D. Kelly (eds.), pp. 59–75 | Chapter

Abstract A number of studies from the last decades have demonstrated that iconic gestures are shaped not only by our mental imagery but also, quite strongly, by structural properties of the accompanying speech. These findings are problematic for the central assumption in the Sketch… read more

Ruiter, J.P. de, Matthijs L. Noordzij, Sarah Newman-Norlund, Roger Newman-Norlund, Peter Hagoort, Stephen C. Levinson and Ivan Toni 2012 Exploring the cognitive infrastructure of communication Experimental Semiotics: Studies on the emergence and evolution of human communication, Galantucci, Bruno and Simon Garrod (eds.), pp. 51–78 | Article

Human communication is often thought about in terms of transmitted messages in a conventional code like a language. But communication requires a specialized interactive intelligence. Senders have to be able to perform recipient design, while receivers need to be able to do intention recognition,… read more

Ruiter, J.P. de 2011 Review of Morsella & Krauss ((2010)): Expressing Oneself / Expressing One’s Self: Communication, Cognition, Language, and Identity Gesture 11:1, pp. 89–94 | Review

Ruiter, J.P. de, Matthijs L. Noordzij, Sarah Newman-Norlund, Roger Newman-Norlund, Peter Hagoort, Stephen C. Levinson and Ivan Toni 2010 Exploring the cognitive infrastructure of communication Experimental Semiotics: A new approach for studying the emergence and the evolution of human communication, Galantucci, Bruno and Simon Garrod (eds.), pp. 51–77 | Article

Human communication is often thought about in terms of transmitted messages in a conventional code like a language. But communication requires a specialized interactive intelligence. Senders have to be able to perform recipient design, while receivers need to be able to do intention recognition,… read more

Ruiter, J.P. de 2007 Postcards from the mind: The relationship between speech, imagistic gesture, and thought Gesture 7:1, pp. 21–38 | Article

In this paper, I compare three different assumptions about the relationship between speech, thought and gesture. These assumptions have profound consequences for theories about the representations and processing involved in gesture and speech production. I associate these assumptions with three… read more