{
  "id": 8108616,
  "title": "Gestures influence the way our brains process grammar",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/17/gestures-influence-the-way-our-brains-process-grammar",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-09-17T21:20:06.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Medical Xpress",
    "slug": "medical-xpress",
    "url": "https://medicalxpress.com/news/2026-09-gestures-brains-grammar.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Our hands may do more than complement what we say. They can also help our brains process grammar. In a new neuroimaging study published in PNAS, researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (MPI) in Nijmegen show that gestures can make it easier to process negative sentences (\"I did not sleep\"), providing the first neurocognitive evidence that gestures influence grammatical…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}