Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP0210105

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP0210105

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Audio-visual Information for Speech-hand Gestures. How does audio-visual information influence human movement and communication? We will investigate whether speech and hand gestures involve shared information about the timing of rhythmic movements. Using dynamical systems theory and brain imaging techniques, we will study rhythms that emerge during simultaneous speaking and finger tapping in both stutterers and non-stutterers, and in left-handers and right-handers. The communicative interaction of two persons performing speech-hand gestures will be examined. Results will clarify how brain asymmetry affects gestural coordination in stutterers, how stuttering can be treated, and the hypothesis that speech and language evolved from a communication system based on hand gestures.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2002

End Date: 31-08-2004

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $140,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Motor Control | Human Movement and Sports Science | Sensory Processes, Perception And Performance | Linguistic Processes (Incl. Speech Production And Comprehension)

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders | Nervous system and disorders |

Other Keywords

Hearing, vision, speech and their disorders | Human Movement and Sports Science | Linguistic Processes (Incl. Speech Production And Comprehension) | Motor Control | Nervous system and disorders | Sensory Processes, Perception And Performance

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