Talking with your hands directly influences what others hear

It's common for people to 'talk with their hands' when conversing with others. Now, researchers show that simple hand gestures during face-to-face conversations can have a very direct influence on what people hear. From New Scientist:

[The scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in the Netherlands] presented Dutch participants with videos of [projecrt lead Hans Rutger] Bosker saying Dutch words that have two meanings depending on which syllables are stressed – an example in English would be the difference between object and object. — Read the rest