Neuroscientists Say Don't Write Off Handwriting

In 2020, a team of researchers studied seventh graders while they handwrote, drew, and typed words, and concluded that handwriting and drawing produced telltale neural tracings indicative of deeper learning that typing on keyboards did not.

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Looking for links to this research? Here you go:
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tine.2012.08.001
https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01810


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