For adults, one of the main benefits of writing by hand is that it simply forces us to slow down. During a meeting or lecture, it's possible to type what you're hearing verbatim.

Don't throw out your keyboards, but adding some writing by hand into our daily routines can increase insight, aid recall, and may protect against cognitive decline.

How Does Handwriting Help When Learning to Read? When learning to read, why does writing an alphabet's letters by hand work best? Handwriting creates a perceptual-motor experience, the authors posit.

Activities like writing, gardening and knitting can improve your cognition and mood. Tapping, typing and scrolling? Less so. By Markham Heid The human hand is a marvel of nature. No other creature ...

Through surveys with 205 young adults in the U.S. and Europe, Baron found that many students report more focus, steadier concentration, and better memory when producing a text by holding a writing ...

New research has shown that writing by hand leads to higher brain connectivity than typing on a keyboard, highlighting the need to expose students to more handwriting activities As digital devices ...

Writing by hand is usually a lot slower, but has some real benefits, van der Meer told NPR. If you're good at typing, you can basically transcribe a conversation, but often you hear the words ...