Publications

2025

ter Bekke, M., Drijvers, L., & Holler, J. (in press). Co-speech hand gestures are used to predict upcoming meaning. Psychological Science.

ter Bekke, M. (2025). On how gestures facilitate prediction and fast responding during conversation. PhD thesis. [link to Open Access file]

2024

ter Bekke, M., Levinson, S.C., van Otterdijk, L., Kühn, M., & Holler, J. (2024). Visual bodily signals and conversational context benefit the anticipation of turn ends. Cognition, 248, 105806. [link to Open Access paper]

ter Bekke, M., Drijvers, L., & Holler, J. (2024). Gestures speed up responses to questions. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 39(4), 423-430. [link to Open Access paper]

ter Bekke, M., Drijvers, L., & Holler, J. (2024). Hand gestures have predictive potential during conversation: An investigation of the timing of gestures in relation to speech. Cognitive Science, 48(1), e13407. [link to Open Access paper]

2022

ter Bekke, M., Özyürek, A., & Ünal, E. (2022). Speaking but not gesturing predicts event memory: A cross-linguistic comparison. Language and Cognition, 14(3), 362-384. [link to Open Access paper]

Frey, V., De Mulder, H.N.M., ter Bekke, M., Struiksma, M.E., van Berkum, J.J.A., & Buskens, V. (2022). Do self-talk phrases affect behavior in ultimatum games? Mind & Society, 21, 89-119. [link to Open Access paper]

2020

ter Bekke, M., Drijvers, L., & Holler, J. (2020). The predictive potential of hand gestures during conversation: An investigation of the timing of gestures in relation to speech. In Proceedings of the 7th GESPIN - Gesture and Speech in Interaction Conference. Stockholm: KTH Royal Institute of Technology. [link to PDF]

2019

ter Bekke, M., Ozyurek, A., & Ünal, E. (2019). Speaking but not gesturing predicts motion event memory within and across languages. In A. Goel, C. Seifert, & C. Freksa (Eds.), Proceedings of the 41st Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2019) (pp. 2940-2946). Montreal, QB: Cognitive Science Society. [link to PDF]