Writing by hand may increase brain connectivity more than typing on a keyboard
▻https://www.frontiersin.org/news/2024/01/26/writing-by-hand-increase-brain-connectivity-typing
In an ever more digital world, pen and paper are increasingly getting replaced with screens and keyboards in classrooms. Now, a new study has investigated neural networks in the brain during hand- and typewriting. The researchers showed that connectivity between different brain regions is more elaborate when letters are formed by hand. This improved brain connectivity, which is crucial to memory building and information encoding, may indicate that writing by hand supports learning.