Speech and music emerge from a spectrum of nested motor and perceptual coordination patterns across timescales of brief movements to actions. Intuitively, this nested clustering in movements should be reflected in sound. We examined similarities and differences in multimodal, multiscale coordination of speech and music using two complementary…

We introduce applications of established methods in time-series and network analysis that we jointly apply here for the kinematic study "of gesture ensembles". We define a gesture ensemble as the set of gestures produced during discourse by a single person or a group of persons. Here we are interested in how gestures kinematically relate…

A large body of research has shown that verbal phrases such as "move the pen" are better remembered when they are physically enacted than when the same phrases are studied under standard verbal learning instructions (e.g., Engelkamp & Krumnacker, 1980). More recently, a non-literal enactment effect was discovered in which verbal material that was…