If you're like many digitally savvy Americans, it has likely been a while since you've spent much time writing by hand. The laborious process of tracing out our thoughts, letter by letter, on the page ...

Typing may be faster than writing by hand, but it’s less stimulating for the brain, according to research published Friday in the journal Frontiers in Psychology. After recording the brain activity of ...

Research compared students who typed lecture notes on laptops with those who wrote lecture notes by hand during the same time.

When it comes to taking notes, new research indicates that writing by hand may stimulate the brain more than typing. Handwriting was found to be better for learning and memory in comparison to typing ...

Writing by hand is linked to higher brain connectivity than writing with a keyboard. The corresponding study was published in Frontiers. In the current study, researchers compared brain connectivity ...

Parents of computer-age kids know how quickly those neatly penned pages of third-grade cursive practice vanish, how seldom kids — as they get older — ever write anything by hand. School papers are ...

Researchers are learning that handwriting engages the brain in ways typing can't match, raising questions about the costs of ditching this age-old... If you're like many digitally savvy Americans, it ...