Handwriting boosts learning

According to Professor Audrey van der Meer:

national guidelines should be put into place to ensure that children receive at least a minimum of handwriting training.Both studies were conducted using an EEG to track and record brain wave activity. The participants wore a hood with over 250 electrodes attached.The results showed that the brain in both young adults and children is much more active when writing by hand than when typing on a keyboard."The use of pen and paper gives the brain more 'hooks' to hang your memories on. Writing by hand creates much more activity in the sensorimotor parts of the brain.

national guidelines should be put into place to ensure that children receive at least a minimum of handwriting training.

Both studies were conducted using an EEG to track and record brain wave activity. The participants wore a hood with over 250 electrodes attached.

The results showed that the brain in both young adults and children is much more active when writing by hand than when typing on a keyboard.

"The use of pen and paper gives the brain more 'hooks' to hang your memories on. Writing by hand creates much more activity in the sensorimotor parts of the brain.

I suspect this would replicate — but there should be a real exam, as brain activity alone is not 100pc conclusive in my view. It would be interesting to do such an experiment with say a history course or an economics course.