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02/12/2025 9:52 pm
Researchers from the University of Washington and Norway’s University of Stavanger found that students who handwrote notes generated deeper processing, stronger conceptual understanding, and better long-term recall compared to those who typed. The slower pace forces the brain to synthesize, not just transcribe.
MRI research on children also shows handwriting produces significantly higher cortical activation in areas linked to reading, spelling, and comprehension—because each stroke creates unique sensory-motor feedback loops. Constant typing, in comparison, reduces comprehension and tends to reduce concentration. Attention span is reduced.
Typing is fast. Handwriting is biologically engaging. And your brain learns best when it works harder.
You old codgers with your earlier learning style have an advantage over those younger. Encourage them to write, one major key to improved thinking and memory.
03/12/2025 6:31 am
But it's more frustrating. It slows me way down too. I can't write as fast as I can type and I am, by no means, a fast typist!!
I'm on my second thought as I am writing down my first. By the time I get to the second, much less the third, I'm like - what was I going to say? So then I start to write in short hand. I never learned short hand and then I'm like - what the hell is that??? 
03/12/2025 7:29 am
Sounds good...for me one major problem, I can't read my own writing neither can anyone else.
John Bono
North Jersey
03/12/2025 8:48 am
@sizedoesmatter Amen to that John. I can't even read my signature...maybe I should have been a doctor...maybe not.
03/12/2025 12:45 pm
Yeah, I'm surprised anyone can read my chicken scratching. 🤣😂😲
03/12/2025 2:47 pm
"...maybe I should have been a doctor."
LoL... that's my son - the Ph.D., to see his handwriting, you'd swear he just fell off a bar stool. "Terrible" would be kind. 🙄 🙄
03/12/2025 2:49 pm
... I learned how to take excellent shorthand in college - of course no one understood it but me, but it got the job done! Not all professors permitted tape recorders. 😔 😔