Gestik3

1) The neural correlates of natural social-communicative perception processes in patients with schizophrenia and healthy controls: Understanding, recognition and interpretation of verbal and non-verbal information

Funding: DFG

2) Investigating disorder specific differences in the neural correlates of natural social-communicative perception processes in patients with schizophrenia, depression and bipolar disorder

Funding: Förder- und Innovationspools der RHÖN-Klinikum AG

3)  The neural correlates of social-communicative perception in patients with schizophrenia, major depression und bipolar disorder: Disorder specific and disorder-unspecific aspects of the comprehension, recognition and interpretation of verbal and non-verbal information

Funding: DFG


Who’s working on Gestik3?

Principal investigators: Benjamin StraubeTilo Kircher 

Associated investigators: Arne Nagels, Yifei He

PhD students: Miriam Steines, Anne Suffel, Momoko Choudhury

Student assistants: Katrin LeinweberRaphaela Hettich

Rekrutierung: Patienten mit Depression, bipolarer Störung oder Schizophrenie gesucht – Gestikstudie_Flyer


Related publications

Nagels, A., Kircher, T., Grosvald, M., Steines, M., & Straube, B. (2019). Evidence for gesture-speech mismatch detection impairments in schizophrenia. Psychiatry Research. IF: 2.223

Choudhury, M., Steines, M., Nagels, A., Riedl, L., Kircher, T. & Straube, B. (accepted). Neural Basis of Speech-Gesture Mismatch Detection in Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders. Schizophrenia Bulletin IF: 7.958

Suffel, A., Nagels, A., Steines, M., Kircher, T., & Straube, B. (2020). Feeling addressed ! The neural processing of social communicative cues in patients with major depression. Human Brain Mapping, 41, 3541–3554. https://doi.org/10.1002/hbm.25027

Nagels, A., Kircher, T., Steines, M., Grosvald, M., Straube, B. (2015). A Brief Self-Rating Scale for the Assessment of Individual Differences in Gesture Perception and Production. Learning and Individual Differences, 39, 73-80. IF: 1.565

Nagels, A., Kircher, T., Steines, M., & Straube, B. (2015). Feeling Addressed! The Role of Body Orientation and Co-Speech Gesture in Social Communication. Human Brain Mapping, 36(5), 1925-36. IF: 5.969

Nagels, A., Chatterjee, A., Kircher, T., & Straube, B. (2013). The role of semantic abstractness and perceptual category in processing speech accompanied by gestures. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 7. doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00181 IF: 4.160

Straube, B., Green, A., Sass, K., Kirner-Veselinovic, A., & Kircher, T. (2013). Neural integration of speech and gesture in schizophrenia: Evidence for differential processing of metaphoric gestures. Human Brain Mapping 34(7), 1696–1712. IF: 6.924

Straube, B., He, Y., Steines, M., Gebhardt, H., Kircher, T., Sammer, G., & Nagels, A. (2013). Supramodal neural processing of abstract information conveyed by speech and gesture. Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 7. doi:10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00120 IF: 4.160

Suffel, A., Nagels, A., Steines, M., Kircher, T., & Straube, B. (2020). Feeling addressed! The neural processing of social communicative cues in patients with major depression. Human Brain Mapping

He, Y., Steines, M., Sammer, G., Nagels, A., Kircher, T., Straube, B. (accepted). Modality-specific dysfunctional neural processing of social-abstract and non-social-concrete information in schizophrenia. NeuroImage: Clinical IF: 4.350

Steines, M., Nagels, A., Kircher, T., & Straube, B. (accepted). The Role of the Left and Right Inferior Frontal Gyrus in Processing Metaphoric and Unrelated Co-speech Gestures. NeuroImage. IF: 5.902

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