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Résumé :
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Objective Despite the need for effective pain communication, pain is difficult to verbalise. Co-speech gestures frequently add information about pain that is not contained in the accompanying speech. We explored whether recipients can obtain additional information from gestures about the pain that is being described. Methods Participants (n = 135) viewed clips of pain descriptions under one of four conditions: 1) Speech Only, 2) Speech and Gesture, 3) Speech, Gesture and Face, and 4) Speech, Gesture and Face plus Instruction (short presentation explaining the pain information that gestures can depict). Participants provided free-text descriptions of the pain that had been described. Responses were scored for the amount of information obtained from the original clips. Findings Participants in the Instruction condition obtained the most information, while those in the Speech Only condition obtained the least (all comparisons p
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