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Susan's research interests include consideration of evidence from speech, speech prosody, and gesture in the investigation of left and right brain hemisphere contributions to language production in normals and in individuals with brain damage. She also works on communicative gesture in individuals with Idiopathic Parkinson Disease, cross-language and developmental comparative analyses of gesture in relation to speech (Spanish, Mandarin Chinese, and English) and gestural dimensions of Signed Language use, with particular reference to natural Taiwan Sign Language.

Amy is a joint PhD student in the Linguistics and Psychology departments, whose work has focused on cross-linguistic analysis of the morphology of home sign. Her dissertation work examines changes in speech and gesture under cognitive load, particularly in cases where a speaker is being deceptive.

I am interested in gestures which co-occur not with "figures of speech" but rather with "figures of thought." I am planning to write my dissertation on gestures and speech indicating anger, and plan to argue against the claim that metaphoric gestures are language-like in some ways. Additionally, I hope to write about something on deictic gestures and "little pro" in Japanese face-to-face conversation.

I am a postdoctoral fellow in the McNeill Gesture Lab. My research is concerned with the utilization of "natural" communicative behavior in human-computer interaction. Specifically, I am interested in computational approaches towards the processing of coverbal iconic gestures. More information about my work can be found on my personal page.

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