New research has analyzed brainwave patterns in both children and young adults while they wrote by hand and as they typed on a keyboard. The results revealed distinctly different brain patterns ...

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 ...

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 ...

As we jettison the pen and pencil in a digital world, we are changing the way our brain thinks about writing I am writing this article in bold, retroexperimental fashion, using a technique found ...

The complexities of handwriting. Image by © Tim Sandle. The complexities of handwriting. Image by © Tim Sandle. AI shows promise in detecting dyslexia (difficulty ...

Think back to the last time you jotted down a quick note or made a grocery list. Chances are, it wasn’t with pen and paper. Over the past decade, keyboards and screens have quietly replaced ...