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Handwriting is good for your brain

As laptops and tablets become more popular, handwriting is slowly fading away. While new technology has many benefits such as helping us stay connected with each other and allowing us to quickly search for information, activities such as printing our letters by hand may help the brain learn. There are many potential reasons for this. When people write letters by hand, they: (1) actively see and feel the letter being written; (2) see several different versions of that letter; and (3) pay more attention to what they are doing. In this article, you will learn about how handwriting helps us learn symbols and aids in remembering information. You will also learn how your brain responds when you write by hand compared with when you type. Handwriting is still important, even if most of how we communicate these days is through a keyboard or touchscreen.

Using an amazing technology called functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we can see what is happening inside the brain while it is learning. The authors declare that the research was conducted in the absence of any commercial or financial relationships that could be construed as a potential conflict of interest. “Comparing memory for handwriting versus typing,” in Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, Vol.

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