More research to support why handwriting (vs. typing on a keyboard) might improve learning and memory? Yes, please!

“Our main finding was that handwriting activates almost the whole brain as compared to typewriting, which hardly activates the brain as such. The brain is not challenged very much when it’s pressing keys on a keyboard as opposed to when it’s forming those letters by hand,” said Audrey van der Meer, the study’s co-author and a neuropsychology professor at NTNU.

In the news: https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna135880

Full research report: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1219945/full

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