In classrooms, offices and even homes, keyboards and touchscreens are steadily replacing pens and paper. But research has shown that handwriting changes the way our brains learn in ways that 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 ...

Writing out the same word again and again in cursive may bring back bad memories for some, but handwriting can boost connectivity across brain regions, some of which are implicated in learning and ...

Note-taking by hand fosters better learning and is an important physical therapy to nurture for a lifetime of aging dexterity.

I remember the first time my second-grade teacher permitted me to use cursive writing on my assignments. At the time, I viewed it as an accomplishment: I could now use cursive for all my assignments!