Course description
Human conversations involve much more than just exchanging sounds: we move, nod, and gesture to the rhythm of our speech. In this course, I’ll introduce some of the methods in the study of multimodal communication, focusing on gesture-speech synchrony from both a production perspective (how do we time our gestures to our speech?) and perception (how does a (mis)aligned gesture change what we hear?). But the best way to grasp these methods is to apply them yourselves! Therefore, we will run our very own gesture-speech integration experiment during this course. So don’t forget to bring your (fully charged) laptop!
Shared folder
You can find all materials for this course in a shared folder on SurfDrive:
https://surfdrive.surf.nl/files/index.php/s/eM5oCx3E3jDzt5P
It’s password-protected; the password will be provided to you on the first day. Please download all materials inside the shared folder to be able to work with the files locally on your own computer. Keep the shared folder open in your browser though! You’ll soon be uploading your own materials there too.
License
All materials are shared under a CC-BY 4.0 license.
2025, Hans Rutger Bosker