Research suggests benefits of handwriting vs. typing
February 5, 2024
After recording the brain activity of university students, researchers in Norway determined that writing by hand may improve learning and memory.
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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