Gestures influence the way our brains process grammar

Our hands whitethorn bash much than complement what we say. They tin besides assistance our brains process grammar. In a caller neuroimaging survey published successful PNAS, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) successful Nijmegen amusement that gestures tin marque it easier to process antagonistic sentences ("I did not sleep"), providing the archetypal neurocognitive grounds that gestures power grammatical processing.